Re: Optical drive not booting

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Tim wrote:
> 
> For what it's worth, I had a PC with Atapi Zip drive and a CD-ROM, I
> could never boot from a CD-ROM with the Zip drive on the system.  The PC
> would try to boot from the first Atapi device (which had to be the Zip,
> or the system would never work), and no amount of jiggery pokery would
> make it regard the CD-ROM as the CD-ROM, unless I unplugged the Zip
> drive.
> 
> ... Pissed off at stupid BIOS programmers...
> 
Talking about stupid BIOS programmers, I had one machine that would
not boot off of ether CD-ROM drive when you had both of them
installed, but would boot off of ether one if you only had one of
them installed. Both drives worked fine after booting. To make
matters more interesting, I have a boot floppy I keep around so I
can boot from CD-ROM where the BIOS does not support it. It would
let me boot from ether drive when I had both installed. So it was a
BIOS problem, and not a hardware problem.

Mikkel
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