>It may have been mentioned on this list before (didn't store those >mail, thin it related to Linux) but: Viruses, and why they might infect a removable drive. >Wonder how - must it not load the drive's driver from somewhere ? >And where from (floppy?) ? I have an ATAPI drive (internal IDE), so it uses the LS-120 code from the BIOS, which appears almost identical to the final stage of the CD-ROM code (booting from CD-ROM requires hard or floppy drive emulation code according to some specs I saw somewhere). A machine I use at school (an Elonex from 1996 IIRC) has a BIOS 'Boot from parallel port' option - not sure which protocols it uses, but it worked with a Zip drive, but not with a Cumana parallel port CD-ROM. Regards, Home page: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/8786 Ben A L Jemmett ICQ: 9848866 JGSD e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- '<INSERT SOME CORNY QUOTE HERE>' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies.
