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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Bernoulli drives that work with OS/2
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.232107.2795@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1i570kINNkcp@access.usask.ca>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 23:21:07 GMT
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- In article <1i570kINNkcp@access.usask.ca> friesend@jester.usask.ca (Darryl Friesen) writes:
- >Hi all. I've got a question about bernoulli drives that I hope
- >someone can answer. I'm a little low on HD space, so I've been
- >thinking about putting a second one in my machine. Some of the
- >guys at work suggested I look into bernoulli drives instead.
- >What I was thinking then was having a cartridge for each OS
- >(ie. one for OS/2 and one for DOS) and configuring the bernoulli
- >drive as the boot device. Is this possible and do bernoulli
- >drives have a fast enough access time to make this feasible for
- >OS/2?
-
- Having OS/2 itself on the Bernoulli is not currently supported, but
- you can certainly put programs and data there. Contact IOMega for
- details on their OS/2 driver.
-
- >Alternatively I could place either DOS or OS/2 on a cartridge
- >(with the other installed on the HD) and use Boot Manager to boot
- >DOS (say, on the HD) or OS/2 (installed on a bernoulli cartridge)
- >Any suggestions/criticisms on this idea?
-
- No, I would suggest leaving both DOS and OS/2 on the hard drive (using
- Boot Manager), and keeping applications and/or data on your
- Bernoullis. The operating system(s) you're going to use a lot. Each
- application, perhaps not as often. You can put the most used
- applications/data on the hard disk, of course.
-
- >Lastly, are all bernoulli's created equal? The only one I've seen
- >an add for is Iomega. Who else makes bernoulli drives and are some
- >better for OS/2 (ie. are there some that will NOT work with OS/2 or
- >are there some that work better than others).
-
- Iomega's Bernoulli drives are the ones you'll want for OS/2. They
- explicitly support OS/2, and they provide drivers.
-
- There are other removeable media drives out there, most of which work
- reasonably well when you have a natively supported SCSI adapter
- (Adaptec, Future Domain, BusLogic, Mylex, DPT, Trantor, etc).
- However, Bernoulli seems to provide the best OS/2 support at present.
-
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