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- From: jlloyd@adapcal.UUCP (John Lloyd)
- Subject: Re: (Q) driver for 20M floptical on SCSI
- Organization: Adaptec Inc., California
- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 16:25:56 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec20.162556.5567@adapcal.UUCP>
- References: <1992Dec14.081655.1703@cltr.uq.OZ.AU> <1992Dec16.225208.24341@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec16.225208.24341@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >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,
- >
- >You'd need a SCSI adapter natively supported by OS/2 (like Adaptec,
- >Trantor, Future Domain, etc). If so, it should work.
- >
- >
- Unfortunately there is NOT any true support for floptical drives at this
- point. In order to write to one a vendor specific command is required to
- "unlock" the media. This would probably best be handled at a level above
- the ADD (i.e. OS2DASD.DMD or a filter) so that all types of valid media
- would function correctly. Perhaps this will be added in the future to
- OS2DASD by IBM or Insite could write the filter to handle their specific
- drive.
-
- jlloyd@adapcal.com
-
- >Timothy F. Sipples | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0h, available from
- >sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu | 128.123.35.151, anonymous ftp, in /pub/os2/all/info
- >Dept. of Econ., Univ. | /faq, or from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET (send "HELP")
- >of Chicago, 60637 | [Read the List, THEN post to ONE OS/2 newsgroup.]
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