Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 15:27:03 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More ATAPI Zip news (will he ever shut up?) Message-ID: <199709270557.PAA00415@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Sep 1997 14:18:16 MST." <Pine.UW2.3.95.970926140350.7181D-100000@cedb>
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> On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Mike Smith wrote: > > Just keeping people informed; the latest Award BIOS *does* appear to be > > able to boot from the ATAPI Zip. Curiouser and curiouser. > > That's a bit of good news. > > I've based a new system on booting off of these puppies and the > one I used for testing, picked up two weeks ago, works fine. > I'm not looking forward to coming up with an alternative. It's not *too* good in that FreeBSD still can't use it as a drive; it comes up as a direct-access ATAPI disk but doesn't respond as a CDROM so it's ignored. > The iomega web site is still refering to them as IDE Zip drives, > has the packaging, part number or anything else changed? I believe so; I don't have access to any of the older IDE units at the moment, but if you have a part number on the IDE version I can compare it with that on the ATAPI-only one later today. mike
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