Hello Andy, it is a lovely day today. 

 JP> I am not on that machine at the moment but IIRC the
 > HDs are shown on booting ( BIOS ) as ATA 100 and ATA
 > 30 and also the CD devices as ATA 30. No ATAPI.

        I think that I wrote this one month ago, did I ?

 AB> How meaningful that is will depend on the habits and intuitions of
 AB> whoever wrote the machine's firmware.  That person may count ATAPI as
 AB> part of ATA (which it is, sort of. ;-)

        The machine runs well on W2K, so I will not touch anything. I
        was mostly curious as to the different descriptions.

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