JIM HOLSONBACK wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 JH> 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".

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

Installation portions of various distros may do that,  but linux itself
does not,  as far as I understand this stuff.

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

I guess maybe we're looking at two different vintage machines,  here,  or something.

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