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At 06:23 PM 7/21/97 UT, Laurence Larsen wrote:
>I recently bought a PCMCIA SCSI card ("new"....although the most recent date
>on the driver disk is 1994!). Part number 04H7613. I have scoured the IBM
>sites on the Internet and Compuserve and am left empty handed looking for
the
>dreaded Win 95 .INF file.
>
>Does anyone know if one was written? If not, is there a workaround so my
701c
>and 560 can share my scanner?
>
>Amazingly, the same thing happened with my Iosoft PCMCIA SCSI card when I
>switched to Win 95 two years ago. They said "Sorry we won't support it in
>Win'95. I can't believe mighty IBM would react the same way.....
>
I have one of these cards which I'm using under OS/2. My understanding is
that it was a product offering from "Options by IBM". There may have been
two sets of driver diskettes or maybe just one.
I've tried to get updated drivers for Warp, etc without success. At COMDEX
I was told that the card had been discontinued. I _thought_ that there
might have been some Win95 drivers/instructions on my disks - if I can find
them easily, I'll check.
I would be surprised if there was no way to use the card under Win95, but I
wouldn't hold my breath trying to get help from IBM on a discontinued product.
But, if you can find a knowledgable person, you _should_ be able to get the
latest diskette images from an ftp site.
One problem I seem to recall was that IBM used some proprietary code on the
diskettes (to someone else [maybe Future Domain]), and IBM was constrained
in their ability to make the drivers publicly available.
Good luck.
Brooks
Brooks McNeely
Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc.
E-mail:
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