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Re: Executor and SyQues



On  4 May 96 at 23:49, NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED wrote:

>Dear All,
>
>     I have been having trouble getting SyQuest IDEs to work under Windows
>95 (and therefore under Executor), because the 32-bit drivers Windows 95
>provides to run it don't seem to work properly.
>
>     Anyway, what I'm really writing for is to see if anyone has used a
>_SCSI_ SyQuest drive with Executor, and if it worked out okay for you.  I'd
>basically like to exchange the IDE for the SCSI, if necessary, but only if
>I know it will work.

I have one, and it works under DOS with Executor OK - in fact, I was
able to run some of the free software on the preformatted cartridge
directly. The potential problem with Windows 95 is ASPI support -
Executor needs an ASPI driver to see Mac disks in this way, and I'm not
sure if Windows 95 has a means to provide ASPI services to a DOS program
when 32-bit drivers are in use (this is possible under OS/2 and NT,
though). You can, of course, load the DOS ASPI driver under Windows 95,
but this will disable the 32-bit drivers resulting in a performance
penalty. I don't consider myself an expert on Windows 95, though, so
someone else may well be able to correct me on this.