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From: spexet@ux.acs.umn.edu (D. Robert Spexet II)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 with AT clone, Adaptec 1542B, and SCSI drive
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Date: 11 May 91 06:33:08 GMT
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In article <12966@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> tholen@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (David Tholen) writes:
>David Feustel writes:
>
>> OS/2 doesn't work with SCSI yet. Try again in a year.
>
>The new IBM Model 90 and 95 have SCSI hard disks, and according to their
>product information literature, OS/2 SE and EE versions 1.2 and 1.3
>support these machines.
>
>Is anybody out there actually running OS/2 on a Model 90 or 95 so that
>this information can be verified?

We're not running on a Model 95, but we *are* running both SCSI and ESDI
drives on a Model 80-A31.  The SCSI and ESDI drives, along with their control-
lers, are standard IBM equipment, and are on the educational pricing schedules.

We run this machine for our lab's file server, running IBM LAN Server software.

OS/2 EE version 1.2 ran fine on this machine, and I am happy to say that ver-
sion 1.3 of the OS/2 EE software runs fine also.

So, I can say that IBM's version of OS/2 supports IBM SCSI and ESDI control-
lers just fine.  (We have a 115-meg ESDI drive and a 320-meg SCSI drive at-
tached to the machine.)  The question that people would like answered, however,
is whether or not IBM's version of OS/2 will support non-IBM disk drives and
their related controllers.

-Dennis

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