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From: smm@milton.u.washington.edu (Stephen Milton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: SCSI drives with WIN3
Message-ID: <11332@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 18 Nov 90 09:01:13 GMT
References: <824@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <824@VAX1.CC.UAKRON.EDU> tim@chaos.math.uakron.edu writes:
>
>Hello..
>
>	Has anyone out there used a SCSI drive with windows 3.0
>if so.. How good does it work with it?  Are there any compatability
>problems with software?  What SCSI contoller card are you using?

I use a PLI Fast Card SCSI adapter card on a 386sx clone. and use two
chained macintosh scsi drives on it.  I tworks fine, in fact the SCSI bus
on my PC is much less volatile than those on the macs in our office.  The 
fast card is approximately $175, and comes with drivers and diagnostic
software.  My current configuration uses an internal IDE 45mb seagate configed
as C: and D:, then the two 45 meg SCSI drives configure as E: and F:.  The 
SCSI driver software has no problem with large partitions.  It even works
great in Windows 3.0.  The program manager and the file manager both recognize
them as valid drives and I have had no problem using either of them.  The only
problem that I have found so far is that things like Norton Disk Doctor and 
other hard disk dependeent utilities don't work on them , but this is to be 
expected since they are driver dependent, and the software in question doesn't
know the hooks in to the drivers.  But as I said windows works them just fine.

Stephen Milton
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