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From: seifert@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Ulrich Seifert)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: IDE drives and OS/2
Keywords: IDE HD disk drive controller
Message-ID: <1990Sep1.195905.25608@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: 1 Sep 90 19:59:05 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Deutschland
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David A Feustel wrote on 8/4/90:

> My suggestion is to get an IDE controller and disk (Conner is a good choice)..
That sounds very interesting. Unfortunately I am stuck with IBM's vs. 1.1 EE
running on a clone right now but I would like to upgrade pretty soon. In this
version there is no devive driver for IDE included. Therefore I would like to
know a few more details on this topic (actually few other guys are interested 
to use IDE drives too).

- With which version of OS/2 (and Microsoft-OEM or IBM ?) comes the device
  driver for IDE ? Anybody knows if IBM supplies it or if it is easily
  available somewhere else?
- Which controllers and drives can be used, are there any restrictions? Well,
  I have no idea if the host interface for IDE is kind of standard so who has
  some insight or experience ?
- Is HPFS supported by the device driver ?

Any answer is appreciated !!!

Thank's 
           Uli