From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Sep 25 10:29:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA00444 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:29:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA00437 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 10:29:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.7.3) id TAA24502; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 19:29:25 +0200 (MEST) From: Søren Schmidt Message-Id: <199709251729.TAA24502@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: ATAPI Zip challenge : aftermath In-Reply-To: <199709251519.AAA04359@word.smith.net.au> from Mike Smith at "Sep 26, 97 00:49:43 am" To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 19:29:25 +0200 (MEST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Mike Smith who wrote: > > Just to bring some continuity to this story; last week I arranged a > loan drive, with which to experiment. After some fruitless initial > tinkering, I sent it back as faulty. > > The replacement arrived today, and it exhibits the same basic > behaviour; ie. it no longer looks like an IDE disk at all. It _does_ > respond to the ATAPI probe, however they appear to have removed the IDE > emulation in current models. Does it behave like an ATAPI device ?? Or is it some kind of proprietary protocol ?? > This of course means that you can't _boot_ from them anymore, which is > a royal pain. > > It'd still be good if someone were to come forward and offer to add the > necessary ATAPI support, of course. 8) Shouldn't be too difficult, IF it follows the ATAPI protocol... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end ..