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- From: jeffc@netcom.com (Jeff Cohen)
- Subject: Re: Hard Disk Interrupts?
- Message-ID: <7fmmxzq.jeffc@netcom.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 06:30:05 GMT
- Organization: Hacker's Anonymous
- References: <1992Jul27.190858.28541@rock.concert.net>
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- In article <1992Jul27.190858.28541@rock.concert.net> rls@.wedge.nt.com (Robert L. Smith) writes:
- >Jeff Cohen of jeffc@netcom.com WROTE on Sun, 26 Jul 92 21:32:48 GMT:
- >
- >> OS/2 most certainly uses hard disk interrupts, but only if it has a
- >> native device driver. . . OS/2 ships with native drivers for
- >> Adaptec and Future Domain SCSI (and IBM, of course).
- >
- > I have an Adaptec SCSI adapter, so I should be able to obtain this
- >support. Given that the system is already running, however, the next
- >question is how? Should I put on the Interrupt Enable jumper and
- >reinstall OS2? That is, will OS2 automatically determinine that it
- >should substitute interrupt support, or do I have to tell it somehow?
- > Thanks much for all the encouragement!
- >
- >Regards, rLs
-
- If the adapter was installed when OS/2 was installed, it's driver
- should have been installed automatically. You can verify this by
- looking for a line in CONFIG.SYS which looks something like
- BASEDEV=AHA1nnn.ADD.
-
- There's no way to tell the driver in CONFIG.SYS whether interrupts
- are enabled, so I assume that enabling them on the card is all
- that's required; no reinstallation necessary.
-
- The README file in the root directory of the boot partition has
- additional information on this subject.
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