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Subject: Re: ATAPI Zip challenge : aftermath 
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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:02:43 +0930
From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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> On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Mike Smith wrote:
> > 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.
> > 
> > This of course means that you can't _boot_ from them anymore, which is 
> > a royal pain.
> 
> Does it look enough like an ATAPI CD drive that a BIOS with boot-from-CD
> support would attempt to boot it?

Not enough for the AMI BIOS at any rate; it complains that it's 
"Atapi incompatible", which I think means "it's not a CDROM".

mike