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- From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
- Subject: Re: Adaptec 1542B+IDE+OS/2?
- References: <1992Jul22.023427.25043@wam.umd.edu>
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- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 08:09:22 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.023427.25043@wam.umd.edu> jdowdal@wam.umd.edu (John Dowdal) writes:
- >I am interested in adding a SCSI hard disk to my system. I'd like to
- >know about successes and failures from people who have been using
- >an Adaptec 1542B controller with a SCSI hard drive; an IDE drive; and
- >running under OS/2 accessing both drives at the same time.
- >
- >A friend has attempted to do this with an Ultrastor controller, but the
- >system crashed if he accessed both the IDE and the SCSI at the same time
- >(try loading a program from one drive when the swapfile is on the other
- >drive).
-
- I have recently changed from IDE to SCSI (Adaptec 1542B). During the
- conversion I had both drives active and used both at the same time to
- copy all stuff over from the IDE disk to the SCSI disk with xcopy.
- Worked fine and very fast (320MB in just a few minutes).
-
- >I also want to know if this controller works well without the INT 13
- >drivers. This same person switched to a Future Domain controller,
- >and got a trashed hard disk because of bugs in the drivers.
-
- The Adaptec works with it's own special drivers. The drives included
- with OS/2 are said to have floppy bugs but there is an update available
- and I had no problems so far with these drivers.
-
- >Basically, I want to make sure that this will work without as much
- >trouble as my friend had.
-
- The Adaptec 1542B and the SCSI disk (and a CD-ROM drive which I have
- also connected to the 1542B) work flawlessly so far.
-
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
-
- /* Kai Uwe Rommel --- rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de */
-
- DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
- handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams
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