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- From: nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins)
- Subject: Re: Bernoulli drives and OS/2.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.153434.26594@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Sussex
- References: <1992Dec18.190816.546@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 15:34:34 GMT
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- From article <1992Dec18.190816.546@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, by mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539):
- > In <1992Dec18.002215.21333@netcom.com> feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
- >
- >>I don't understand the comment that Bernoulli drives don't work with
- >>os/2 without drivers. I read/wrote Bernoulli drives in an MS DOS
- >>session for quite a while before I got the Iomega drivers for os/2 and
- >>was able to use the drives in os/2 sessions.
- >
- > I think the trick to this is that you have to use AFDISK to format the
- > Bernoullis under DOS instead of the Iomega software. It formats them
- > slightly smaller (42 vice 44 MB), but on my system they seem to access
- > a LOT faster. That could just be the difference in the I/O speed of
- > the adapter, though.
- However the ASPIDISK s/w driver will only read above format and not
- the Bernoilli format. Anybody got the Bernoulli shareware library on
- an AFDISK Bernoulli 44 ?
-
- Nick
- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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