Re: Your IDE command stuff (was Re: OT: IDE controlers)

From: Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Date: Fri Jun 23 2000 - 03:18:32 EST


No. OBS is not offically supported by Linux!
They run their business no less then 20 miles from where I live.
I asked then for product and specs for testing and certification.

Castlewood == /dev/null was the answer.

Cheers,

On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Andries Brouwer wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 21, 2000 at 10:40:24PM -0600, Jim wrote:
>
> > I have a Castlewood ORB 2.2 GB EIDE drive that comes from the factory
> > configured as a fixed drive:
> >
> > Castlewood ships a Windows utility you can use to configure the drive
> > as removable. Since I don't do Windows, I've been looking for a way to
> > do this on Linux.
> >
> > I have contacted Castlewood support, and they have supplied me with
> > their EIDE OEM manual. I assume it contains the info I need to
> > reconfigure my drive as removable.
> >
> > My question: Is your "IDE command stuff", and your "small utility",
> > what I need to convince my ORB it is really a removable drive?
>
> To the second: no. To the first: possibly.
> If this manual is electronic I wouldnt mind a copy (mail to aeb@cwi.nl).
> If it is paper perhaps you can study it and quote me the relevant
> fragments. I conjecture that it wouldnt be difficult to produce a
> utility that does what you want.
>
> Andries
>
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Andre Hedrick
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