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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: (Q) driver for 20M floptical on SCSI
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.225208.24341@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Dec14.081655.1703@cltr.uq.OZ.AU>
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 22:52:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.081655.1703@cltr.uq.OZ.AU> vthrc@mailbox.uq.oz.au writes:
- >perhaps somebody might be able to answer a simple question that our dealer
- >doesn't seem able to: is there an OS/2 driver for an Insite 20M floptical
- >drive? We are currently running one under DOS with a Grassroots SCSI adaptor,
- >but that card incorporates an EPROM BIOS instead of a driver (see below). Maybe
- >some generic SCSI disk driver (for removables) would work, but the Grassroots
- >approach is nice cause it allows you to use it as a standard floppy drive as
- >well as supporting the 20M disks. I'm quite ignorant on OS/2, so I don't know
- >whether such a driver would be layered on top of the Adaptec SCSI driver or
- >exists as a standalone, but we'd be prepared to sacrifice the ability to boot
- >from the floptical and use it purely for the 20M disks.
-
- You'd need a SCSI adapter natively supported by OS/2 (like Adaptec,
- Trantor, Future Domain, etc). If so, it should work.
-
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