Hello, Roy.
-=> on 02-28-05 12:06, ROY J. TELLASON wrote to JIM HOLSONBACK <=-

 JH> The card supports ATAPI devices, but only after the proper driver
 JH> for the card is installed in Windows or other PnP OS (LInux).

 RJT> Linux is NOT what you'd ordinarily consider "a PnP OS".  In other
 RJT> words, if there's a cmos setting for that,  you'd normally pick
"no".

I meant PnP OS in the sense that the OS can detect, identify and install
drivers for attached hardware, or ask you for a driver if it doesn't
find a good one, as Win98SE does.  Does Linux not do that?

But I think you may be confusing me by also talking about PnP BIOS on
mainboard.  For example, on this machine, the mainboard BIOS PnP
detects the Promise card as a "PCI Mass storage Device", and it
autodetects and names my USR internal Courier 56K modem, which I have
jumpered for PnP, rather than for ComPort and IRQ. And, AFAIK, my
mainboard BIOS will continue to detect those, and there is no toggle in
SETUP to change to a "NONE" value.

- - -  JimH.

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