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- From: williams@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams)
- Subject: Experiences with Corel SCSI Software for OS/2,IN/2000 adapter
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.142801.29254@news.uiowa.edu>
- Sender: news@news.uiowa.edu (News)
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:28:01 GMT
- Reply-To: williams@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: herky.cs.uiowa.edu
- Organization: U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
- Keywords: SCSI,IN2000,Liars
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- Based on the assertion by a Corel Pre-Sale representative that COREL SCSI
- software supports the Allways IN/2000 SCSI host adapter under OS/2, I ordered
- a copy. NOT!!!
-
- 1. You need an adapter-specific ASPI driver from Allways, that they've
- not bothered to write yet.
-
- 2. Corel SCSI software will NOT work with HPFS! I don't know if that means
- that you can't use their driver to boot from a HPFS partition, or that the
- backup software doesn't work or what, but they state on their Help line that
- you can NOT use HPFS on SCSI disks.
-
- I suppose it's old news that the IN2000 card is slow using the generic
- driver, and that they've been promising (and not delivering) OS/2 support
- for years. Their Tech Support bulletin board is full of the most amazing
- flaming about OS/2.
-
- SUMMARY: DON'T buy Corel SCSI software for OS/2, if you expect to use
- either the IN2000 or HPFS, or both. Don't buy the IN2000 card for
- OS/2, spring the extra hundred bucks for the Adaptec controller.
-
- I'm out 70$, but you, the buying public, have the facts now.
-
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- Kent Williams -- williams@cs.uiowa.edu Work(335-4496) Home(338-6053)
- There used to be an inflammatory quote here.
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