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Wirt Atmar <[log in to unmask]>
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Denys chastises:

> Sigh.  Ok, let me put it more plainly.  You wasted a lot of time figuring
out
>  what kind of disk drive you had.  As I explained, probably not well, with
> SCSI
>  devices on MPE, the only thing you really need to know is if the device is
> SE
>  or Differential.  If the disk is Single Ended, you know where to plug it
in
> and
>  you use any of the SE disk IDs from IODFAULT.PUB.SYS.  The disk will come
up
>  and be usable.

I know that now , but at the time, I didn't. And that was the time waster --
figuring out that SYSGEN's device ID field is nowadays essentially ignored,
even though the IODFAULT file is filled with choices for you use, with even
more choices apparently available on the system (such as the Quantum
Fireball), but not listed.

Wirt ("IODFAULT lies in ourselves, not in our stars") Atmar

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