From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 26 22:59:43 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA29901 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 22:59:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (ppp20.portal.net.au [202.12.71.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA29895 for ; Fri, 26 Sep 1997 22:59:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.smith.net.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA00415; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 15:27:05 +0930 (CST) Message-Id: <199709270557.PAA00415@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Dan Busarow cc: Mike Smith , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More ATAPI Zip news (will he ever shut up?) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 26 Sep 1997 14:18:16 MST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 15:27:03 +0930 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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