Date: Tue, 10 Oct 95 11:46:00 W From: Angelo Turetta <turetta@trust.stylo.it> To: jehamby <jehamby@covina.lightside.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Atapi.flp boots but doesn't recognize.. Message-ID: <307A3EBC@trust.stylo.it>
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> > I've three major concerns about ATAPI CD-ROM support: > > 2) It's not possible to use the IDE CD-ROM as the secondary > device on the IDE BUS if the master device is not present: > > Good point. Note that all flavors of Windows only have to support IDE > CD-ROM when you explicity tell it you have one, that's why they can be > more aggressive with the probing (especially since you need a special > driver to support hard drives on the second controller in Windoze, unlike > FreeBSD). Window NT & Windows 95 come with integrated support for secondary IDE controller & ATAPI CD-ROM. Of course, you cannot boot from a partition on the secondary bus, but I can add or remove hard disks and it automatically use them. >--- Jake Hamby Angelo Turetta <aturetta@stylo.it>
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