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- From: moncrg@rs6109.ecs.rpi.edu (Gregory Donald Moncreaff)
- Subject: Re: WD7000. Will it be supported?
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- References: <1992Sep2.202259.10539@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:43:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep2.202259.10539@waikato.ac.nz> hamish@waikato.ac.nz writes:
- >
- >Can somebody tell me if Columbia Data Products are intending on supporting OS/2
- >2.0 with the WD-7000 FAAST SCSI controller? I have a driver from the 3.35v of
- >their software, but it says OS/2 1.x, and I don't know whether this will work
- >with 2.0 (And no time to mess about trying it at the moment either).
- >
- >Can somebody tell me if this will work (Or if there is a later revision of the
- >driver software that will?) I know that OS/2 will use the controller via INT13,
- >but have heard that this is slow and clunky on disk accesses, so I'd rather use
- >a native controller.
- >
- >Either that or the specs so that all isn't completely lost would be nice?
- >
- i have installed os/2 on a wd7000-fasst rev3.36. i didn't use the sst software
- to partition or format the disk. i use dos or os/2 fdisk only.
-