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Date:	Wed, 4 May 2005 10:59:42 PDT7
From:	"Mark D. Overholser" <os2@markoverholser.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Re: ULTRA II SCSI card

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Steven Levine wrote:

> In <20050504051026-50778-8@scoug.com>, on 05/04/05
> at 05:10 AM, "Harry Motin" said:
>
>
>>articles. I called Adaptec. As I stated before, the bottomline is that
>>the driver only works, when the HPFS386 file system is present (i.e., on
>>Warp Server for Business). At least that's my understanding of this
>>issue.
>
>
> While I have no way to prove or disprove this at the moment, it is
> extremely unlikely. HPFS386 is an optional add-on for WSeB and the
> documents make no mention of this requirement. This is not a typical IBM
> omission.
>
> I have the 9/2003 version of these drivers which are marked:
>
> @#OEM:1.0#@ Adaptec Ultra320 Family Driver for OS/2 (d1.0 9/5/2003)
>
> If I get sufficiently curious, I will check the code more closely for
> indications that it cares about the the existance of HPFS386. A quick
> glance at the binaries shows no evidence of such. An .ADD driver would
> have to go to extraordinary lengths to do such a check.
>
> If you have a newer version of the driver and you send it my way I will
> test this rather than what I have.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steven
>

According to the Documents that Harry attached, there is NO MENTION of
HPFS or 386.

IIRC, HPFS386 does have some NETBIOS hooks for improved Network
transfers, but nothing I can recall for NIC's.

MarkO

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