Method of booting a computer system with identifying a CD-ROM disk drive of the system and a method of loading a device driver

摘要

A method of booting a computer system with identifying the type of a CD-ROM disk drive of the computer system, the method comprising the steps of: producing an ATAPI IDENTIFY DRIVE command and outputting the ATAPI IDENTIFY DRIVE command to an IDE controller; reading information memorized in a memory of the CD-ROM disk drive in response to the ATAPI IDENTIFY DRIVE command; comparing the information with a predetermined set of internal CD-ROM disk drive information, and determining the type of the CD-ROM disk drive; and selecting a device driver according to the type of the CD-ROM disk drive, and loading the device driver on a memory.