On Tue, 2 Sep 1997 10:22:52 +0200 
 Manuel BOUYER <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr> wrote:

 > Could work ... Atapi devices are expected to answer to some ATA commands
 > so that they can be used by bioses, among other things.
 > I need to prevent drive probing on slots known to hold an ATAPI device.
 > I'll look at this.

A simple resource map should do the trick.

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