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- From: gjw900@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: WD7000. Will it be supported?
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 14:06:43 GMT
- Organization: Computer Services Centre
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- Message-ID: <gjw900.14.716047602@anu.edu.au>
- References: <1992Sep2.202259.10539@waikato.ac.nz>
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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 read here a few months ago that CDP were working on a 2.0 driver, which
- would be in version 4.0 of the SST software. Fourth quarter, ws it?
-
- >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).
-
- Doesn't work.
-
- >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.
-
- Wouldn't we all... I have a WD7000 on my office machine and it works file,
- albeit with the INT13 driver. Note that you can't partition the drive at
- all, even for Boot Manager, with the current level of the controller BIOS.
-
- --
- Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au This post made from 100% recycled electrons.
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