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From: winans@sirius.mcs.anl.gov (John Winans)
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Subject: Re: Questions
Keywords: SCSI, Norton, Adaptec, Seagate
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Date: 5 Apr 91 21:38:59 GMT
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In article <12653@aggie.ucdavis.edu> cccstevn@underdog.Ucdavis.EDU (Steven T. Ansell) writes:
>On the same topic, does Coherent support IDE drives?  I remember
>reading somewhere that is does not, but can't recall the source.
>If not, are there plans to support them in the future?  

I don't know what the doc says about it, but I have a 124MB IDE on my PC 
running coherent W/O any problems.  My PC is an Epson Equity II+...  It's setup
program wouldn't let me choose the correct drive type to match it, but I chose
the closest one, and have had no DOS or Coherent problems since I got it in 
December.  It is a Segate ST1144A config'd with 4 31MB partitions (3 coherent 
and 1 DOS.)  The controller has no ROM on it, so it is using the regular BIOS
code that came with my PC.

I am sorta worried about the drive type stuff not matching in the setup, but
I have it pretty filled up & there does not seem to be anything bad happening
(yet.)  The right way to install the thing would have been to get a newer BIOS
that supports 'User Defined Drive Types' and enter the heads/cyls/tracks...
stuff that way.  But what the heck...  I keep what I need backed up, so I'll
just deal with it when it breaks.


I think the general rule with Coherent is that it will support anything that
the BIOS supports on it's own.  (Stuff that does not need any special software
loaded from a CONFIG.SYS or what ever.)


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