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From: David Nugent <davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au>
To: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
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Subject: Re: HELP Installing 2.1.5 with a ATAPI CD-Rom
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On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, Nadav Eiron wrote:

>AFAIK ATAPI CD-ROMS normally work just as slaves. This is a bit
>of bad news for you since you don;t have a hard disk to act as
>the CD-ROM's master. 

Nope. That's certainly not the case here.

I'm currently running 2 SCSI hard drives and one atapi CDROM off
the IDE controller on the motherboard, configured as master.
Works fine (he says, listening to his favourite CD's through his
headphones... :-)). 


David Nugent, Unique Computing Pty Ltd - Melbourne, Australia
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