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From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
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Subject: Re: SCSI controllers for OS/2 vs. 1.2 and higher?
Keywords: SCSI device driver
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Date: 18 Sep 90 21:30:25 GMT
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In article <4491@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:
>
>In the basedd01.sys of my IBM OS/2 1.2 I found a device driver named
>SCSIXPT$ which causes me to assume that it already supports a SCSI
>controller, probably only the IBM one. Does anyone know which brand this
>IBM SCSI controller is or if it is their own contruction?

IBM have their own SCSI controller, but I have heard a rumour thabecause
of some problems with their own controller, they OEMed a NCR controller.
I don't know if this is true, but I know IBM had some serious problems with
their own SCSI controller, making them actually stop and withdraw already
released/sold machines.


Mikael Wahlgren      d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se