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Article #160494Re: Privateer
From: Karl Frank
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 16:46
Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2003 16:46
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thehawk wrote: >>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. Again, no - they don't. I had an Adaptec 2940, 2940U and 2940AU in my systems and _NONE_ needed a driver for the HDs to work. I don't have any IDE devices in there so I'd have a hard time booting my machine if you were correct... If course you need a driver to access CD drives or Zip drives. But the PCI card adds its own BIOS in the boot process, enough to work as long as only HDs are needed... I heared that only 2 HDs work wothut driver, but as I got 3 I can deny that rumor... -- The following is a new Windows message that is under consideration for the planned Windows 2001: * BREAKFAST.SYS halted... Cereal port not responding. [Delete the karl after the @ to avoid my spam trap]
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