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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?