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From: "da Silva, Joe" <Joe DOT daSilva AT emailmetering DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: OTI9xx IDE controller chip (was chs pin)
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 11:35:17 +1100
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Ahah!!! Well, the standard "32 bit drivers" are ATAPI drivers,
whereas the drive in question is not ATAPI compliant! So,
you either need to find Win 9X and Linux drivers for your
drive (check the manufacturer's web site, if any), or else
somehow convince Windoze not to supplant your DOS driver
with it's own internal driver (although I have my CD-ROM's
DOS device driver loaded in CONFIG.SYS (I don't always
start the GUI ;-), when the Windoze 95B system starts, it
bypasses this, and uses it's inbuilt driver).

Joe.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	White Dragon [SMTP:white DOT dragon AT tin DOT it]
> Sent:	Friday, 16 February 2001 22:54
> To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject:	Re: OTI9xx IDE controller chip (was chs pin)
> 
> > Now, regarding your driver - make sure it is for that
> > particular drive, not another drive using the same
> > controller chip! I know I tried a few different drivers,
> > all written by Oak for various drive manufacturers,
> > all using the same IDE controller chip, yet only
> > the driver from NEC (written by Oak) worked with
> > this drive! These days it's not such a problem,
> > because all drives _should_ now conform to the
> > ATAPI standard, but for older drives, you really
> > must use the correct driver!
> 
> > Joe.
> 
> I used the driver shipped with the cdrom drive.
> ops! I forgot that under dos it worked perfectly.
> The problems began when i tryed to access the drive
> using 32 bit drivers (eg. like under linux or windows 95b)
> 
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