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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Bernoulli drives and OS/2.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.201012.13360@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec18.190816.546@mksol.dseg.ti.com> <1992Dec23.153434.26594@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:10:12 GMT
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- In <1992Dec23.153434.26594@syma.sussex.ac.uk> nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins) writes:
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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 ?
-
- Right. However, the Iomega RCD adapter seems to be able to read both
- (its own format and the AFDISK format).
-
- Now then, what's this Bernoulli shareware library and where would one
- go about finding it?
-
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