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*UPDATE* Removable Media FAQ for OS/2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leon Grossman)
Tue Mar 25 18:47:21 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 25 Mar 1997 23:34:49 GMT
From: lgrossm@kneebitingspammers.ceatlabs.okstate.edu (Leon Grossman)
Reply-To: lgrossm@kneebitingspammers.ceatlabs.okstate.edu (Leon Grossman)
Reply-to: lgrossm@ceatlabs.okstate.edu (Leon Grossman)
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The FAQ has been posted to c.o.s.s. as well as being available in the usual
locations.
Leon
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The Removable Media FAQ for OS/2
By: Leon Grossman (lgrossm@ceatlabs.okstate.edu)
I'm keeping the byline because my goal in life is to be a megalomaniac but, in
actuality, I am now responsible for writing very little of this FAQ. I have
listed everyone's name with their section of the FAQ. I will remain the
maintainer of this FAQ until I defend my thesis sometime next spring .
Hopefully we'll have it pretty much complete by then (as complete as anything
can be in the ever changing computer world).
Revision History:
Latest revision: March 24, 1997
Fifth Revision: December 13, 1996
Fourth Revision: November 6, 1996
Third revision: October 25, 1996
Second revision: October 19, 1996
First revision: October 11, 1996
Initial release: October 9, 1996
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VERY IMPORTANT NOTES:
IBM has released a new OS2DASD.DMD and IBM1S506.ADD drivers with enhanced
removability support. The IBM1S506 driver will now provide better support for
removable media. The OS2DASD.DMD will allow SCSI and IDE removable media
drive users (of all sorts) to gain HPFS removability, speed, and just overall
native support for HPFS without requiring special drivers. These drivers will
be folded into the base OS at some later date but you can get them now.
There is also a new release of device drivers supporting 1024 and 2048
byte/sector MO disks. See and download them from:
http://rheooptik.fmf.uni-freiburg.de/pub/os2/drivers/removables/00-index.html
A further description will follow at the next revision of this FAQ.
Note for PP Zip drive users: You are the only ones left out here (Syquest has
an .ADD driver for their PP drives) but if you can talk Iomega into creating
an .ADD driver for your PP drive the new OS2DASD.DMD will support the PP ZIP
drive too! I have emailed Iomega on this several times, only to be completely
ignored. I emailed them upon learning about the new drivers by IBM and they
have ignored me. Let's start an email campaign and make them listen. Read in
sections 2 and 3 for more information.
New drivers are available from the OS/2 Device Driver Pak On-Line:
http://service.software.ibm.com/os2ddpak/html/miscellb/os_2warp/index.htm
in USA:
ftp://ladybug.cheng.okstate.edu/newdasd.exe
in Europe:
http://rheooptik.fmf.uni-freiburg.de/pub/os2/drivers/removables/00-index.html
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Leon Grossman
Team OS/2
lgrossm@ceatlabs.okstate.edu
Spam email has increased in the last few weeks to hideous proportions.
My Reply to address has been altered to address this issue.
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The removable media FAQ for OS/2 is available at:
http://www.txdirect.net/users/teej/remmedia.htm
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