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Netgear model MR314 - Australian site (Suggested price is in Australian dollars): http://www.netgear.com.au/product_view.asp?xrp=11&yrp=28&zrp=115 System Requirements: Cable or DSL modem and Internet service Network card for each PC Network software (e.g., Windows) Internet Explorer 4.0 or higher Netscape 4.0 or higher.

Hi Don, thanks for the nice article on CDR/CDRW you wrote for this months issue of the Voice Newsletter.

I have a question to ask about the subject, and that is do all brands work on OS/2 using Daniela's drivers, or do just the ones that provide OS/2 drivers or provide support for OS/2 work.

Thanks, Curt Danner

To my knowledge none of the 16X, 20X, or 24X CD-RW drives "provide OS/2 support". That is, the hardware makers have made no claims to support OS/2 with any of their products. However as they are all standard IDE devices and (supposedly) conform to the MMC-3 specification, Daniela's drivers should work with any of them. To use any of them as just a CD-ROM, only IBM's standard IDE driver support is needed (IBM1S506.ADD and IBMIDECD.FLT). Supposedly IBM's newer versions of those drivers also support the CD-R and CD-RW features just as Daniela's drivers do, but I have had no reason to try it.

The only words of caution I got from Daniela were to avoid the Sony CD-RW drives. Any others (Yamaha, Acer, Teac, TDK, etc) should be alright.

Dear OS2Voice Editors,

Just now I saw the old article about RAID and OS/2 and I was wondering whether there are any new products available in the meantime. Do you know anything?

I'm looking for a solution for OS/2 and Linux at the same time.

Thanks for any pointers!
Jocki

Joachim

There are newer versions of the Arco DupliDisk that say they are OS independent. I haven't tried them, but I believe they work the same as the original, where they use your existing IDE controller which sends data to the Arco controller which then writes identical data to both attached drives. The specs on this state it is ATA66/33. http://www.arcoide.com/productspages/products.html

There is a thread going on in comp.os.os2.setup.storage right now Subject: "Promise IDE RAID & OS/2?". There people are saying that the new Promise RAID controllers, especially the built-in ones, don't have OS/2 support for RAID, but will work with Daniela's latest IDE replacement driver, including support for the additional IDE connections. There is a software RAID driver for OS/2 - VRAID, that one can then use to mirror the drives. I have no experience with either the newer Promise controllers or the VRAID software driver. I have an original Promise Fasttrak IDE RAID controller which has an OS/2 driver. And that worked well when I used it, but it is limited to ATA33.

Also someone stated there is another IDE RAID solution that is supposed to work with any operating system - ARAID99-500 IDE RAID http://www.synetic.net/Synetic-Products/ARAID99-500.htm Again I don't know anything about it.

I am not currently familiar with what is available for OS/2 in regard to SCSI RAID. I know that the AMI RAID controllers used to work well under OS/2, as well as IBM ServeRAID cards. I looked into Adaptec SCSI RAID adapters a while back, but these had no OS/2 support. You have to be careful about some SCSI cards like Mylex, which promote themselves as RAID, but are in fact software RAID only, and only work in certain versions of windows.

Mark

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