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Subject: Re: Why does my SCSI work ???
Message-ID: <910322477@minixug.mugnet.org>
Date: 22 Mar 91 22:05:43 GMT
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dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen) wrote:
> I just tried the 1.5 demodisk on my brand new 386 with a DTC3280A SCSI
> controller and a ST1096N disk. Expecting failure I tried to make a file 
> system on an empty partition and SUCCEEDED! Now why is that? I was under
> the impression (solely from reading this group) that a special SCSI driver
> was needed. Is it not SCSI after all? Does anyone have any knowledge about 
> this? Will it also work when I buy the PH distribution?  

The DEMO disk distribution uses the BIOS-based winichester driver :-)
So, the demo is useless to find out whether it will run on your particular
"Foo Bar Corp Turbo Controller"...

Fred.