Hep me!! scsi adapter DOS drivers (ot?) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Jan 2002

Dick,

  That was a strange one. Now I understand the reference to
it's being dangerous to even have in the car. Actually, I
found many tape backup programs to be unsatisfactory, mostly
because I was getting larger and larger tape drives faster
than the backup software ( that I liked ) was supporting
them. I like PC Tools for disk and file management. I haven't
ever really liked any tape backup software, to the point that
I hardly even like tape drives anymore, and would rather just
backup a hard drive to another hard drive of equal capacity.

                            Ian

Richard Erlacher wrote:
...

 I gave a fellow a ride to the office once, because his wife needed his car,
 since hers was in the shop.  He had, in his briefcase, which he left in the
 car, a copy of the then-current PC-Tools suite, that he'd bought that
 morning at the computer store where I picked him up.  At the moment we drove
 into the lot, all the systems in the building went down and wouldn't run
 again until I sent this fellow, together with my car, on an errand to fetch
 some parts, after which the systems all came up and functioned nicely until
 he returned, at which time the whole kit and caboodle crashed again.  His
 wife later picked up the copy of PC-Tools from him, and, when she left with
 it, all the systems promptly came back to life and continued to operate
 nominally.  This was, BTW, before Windows9x.

 From this, I conclude that it wasn't the car,
it wasn't the briefcase, it  wasn't the guy, but it was that one item that
apparently was the index.

 Dick

 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Ian Koller" &lt;vze2mnvr(a)verizon.net&gt;
 To: &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;rg>; "Richard Erlacher"
&lt;edick(a)idcomm.com&gt;om>; "Ben
 Franchuk" &lt;bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca&gt;
 Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 11:33 AM
 Subject: Re: Hep me!! scsi adapter DOS drivers (ot?)

  But all I want to do is read a CD rom from $#@!
DOS! 
  But someone was having problems downloading these ASPI
 managers from Adaptec's site, so it's a second alternative
 source. Some might not have realized that if they have the
 PCTools program, they may already have these drivers, and
 just not have known it.

  Why would anybody use PC-Tools-anything????
It's dangerous
 even to have it the car, let alone bringing it inside ... 
 Dick, I used that program for a long time. I never had any
 problems with it. I found it to be a useful suite of tools
 for disk and file management in the "DOS" days.

  > Why not simply use what ADAPTEC provides?

 Those ASPI managers were provided by Adaptec. They were the
 "real deal". Licensed by Central Point Software to be included
 in the PC Tools package.

 Richard Erlacher wrote:

   > Why not simply use what ADAPTEC
provides?  There's nothing else that  does
  > the job better, though there are MANY driver
sets that do it worse,  notably
  > the stuff from IOMEGA.
 >
 > Dick
 > ----- Original Message -----
 > From: "Ian Koller" &lt;vze2mnvr(a)verizon.net&gt;
 > To: &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;rg>; "Ben Franchuk" 
&lt;bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca&gt;ca>;
 > > "Ron Hudson" &lt;rhudson(a)cnonline.net&gt;
 > > Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2002 9:26 AM
 > > Subject: Re: Hep me!! scsi adapter DOS drivers (ot?)
 > > >
 > > > It's been a while, so I may not be remembering correctly,
 > > > but I think PC Tools had a series of Adaptec ASPI drivers
 > > > with it, probably to support the backup program ( to SCSI
 > > > tape drives ).
 > > >
 > > >
 > > >
 > > >
 > > > Ben Franchuk wrote:
 > > > >
 > > > > Ron Hudson wrote:
 > > > > >
 > > > > > --probably off topic...
 > > > > >
 > > > > > I am not sure of the age of the board but
 > > > > > Adaptec seems to think it's not supportable
 > > > > > any more... :^(
 > > > > >
 > > > > > Anybody have DOS ASPI drivers for the
 > > > > > ADAPTEC AHA-1542CF??
 > > > > >
 > > > > > Tis an ISA scsi card with floppy attach
 > > > > > and I have it in a 486 machine
 > > > > >
 > > > > > ----------------------------------
 > > > > > The machine seems to be a 486dx in a "lunchbox"
 > > > > > style case with color lcd. looks like a normal
 > > > > > motherboard is inside..
 > > > > >
 > > > > > goes by the name of PCIII, with no other markings
 > > > > > as to MFG.
 > > > > >
 > > > > > Any one know anything about this?
 > > > >
 > > > > Don't look at me... I still have my 1542 in this PC here
 > > > > and no drivers.I could use the 'dos' drivers to read a CDROM
just in
 > > > > case
 > > > > 95 crashes and I need to reload windows.
 > > > > --
 > > > > Ben Franchuk - Dawn * 12/24 bit cpu *
 > > > > www.jetnet.ab.ca/users/bfranchuk/index.html
 > > >
 > > >
 >
 > 