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Date:      Fri, 26 Sep 1997 00:02:30 +0100 (BST)
From:      Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ATAPI Zip challenge : aftermath
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970925235533.5204B-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199709251519.AAA04359@word.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?



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