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- From: bigal@wpi.WPI.EDU (Nathan Charles Crowell)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Subject: Re: 32-bit disk access
- Message-ID: <1k98epINNeok@bigboote.WPI.EDU>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 18:25:29 GMT
- References: <19930128125725SNODDI@MVS.sas.com>
- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
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- In article <19930128125725SNODDI@MVS.sas.com> SNODDI@MVS.sas.com (Dale Ingold) writes:
- >How does SETUP determine whether your hard drive supports 32-bit disk
- >access or not? It apparently thinks mine does not, and my system guy
- >doesn't know why (or why not; he'd never heard of it until I mentioned
- >it to him. A friend told me about it.) Thanks.
- >
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- >Family slogan: "Disce Pati", means "Learn to Suffer". Really.
- >Dale D. Ingold / /| / SAS Institute Inc. snoddi@mvs.sas.com
- >MVS Host Group | /-| | SAS Campus Drive 919/677-8000 x7603
- > / / | / Cary, NC 27513-2414
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- If you read some of the documentation regarding 32-bit disk
- access, I think what it says is that it isn't entirely com-
- patible with some IDE drives, etc.
-
- SETUP probably "asks" the controller to identify itself and
- if certain info doesn't match what Windows knows will be
- compatible, it won't give you the option.
-
- Try the Windows Resource Kit for more info.
-
- Nate
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- Nathan C. Crowell, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering/ACRL
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- Worcester Polytechnic Institute E-mail: bigal@wpi.wpi.edu
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