OS/2 problems

[Liam Proven]

2008/6/1 Teo Zenios <teoz at neo.rr.com>:

> Just seems odd DOS FDISK had no
> issues finding and formatting the drive but 1.1EE kept giving me errors.

No, not really. DOS uses the BIOS for disk access, so as long as the
controller is PC BIOS-compatible, DOS will see it and drive it.
Protect-mode OSs cannot use the BIOS, so they need to access the
hardware directly. This includes NT, Unix and OS/2.

Back in the day, DOS was a lot less fussy about hardware than any of
the protect-mode OSs. I still have some MCA hardware that only works
in DOS and Windows 3. :¬(

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