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From: thehawk
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 12:33

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"Karl Frank" <ka...@karl.frank.name> wrote in message
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> thehawk wrote:
>
> > PCI SCSI?  Your hard drive, is it SCSI too?  Are you loading the ASPIx
> > drivers on your boot disk?  If not, then your DOS cannot see the hard
drives
> > to be able to work with them.
>
> Not true. Harddrives don't need a driver.
>

True, hard drives do not need drivers.  However, if the controller they are
plugged into happens to be something besides an IDE controller, then your
DOS needs a driver in order to use that controller, and to see the drives
plugged into it.

-thehawk

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