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Subject: Re: cd-rom driver for scsi interface boards
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In <2qu9cc$fhr@news.doit.wisc.edu>, jong-min@iepapc.ie.wisc.edu (Jong-Min Park) writes:
>
>Okay, I've decided to purchase a scsi interface board for currently
>existing Toshiba XM-3401B cd-rom and HP scanjet iicx (and scrap the
>hp provided scsi interface).
>
>Do any adaptec, future domain, etc. scsi adapter come with software
>drivers to access scsi cd-roms? I don;t have any software for
>toshiba cd-rom, but I do have them for scanjet. Otherwise, do I
>need to get toshiba cd-rom software driver separately? Am I making
>sense?
>
>Please respond to jong-min@engr.wisc.edu if possible. Thank you.
>
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Adaptec boards (if you purchase the kit) come with EZSCSI -- which is
basically a convenient packaging of Adaptec ASPI drivers for the board,
cd-rom, and non-bios support drives.  EZSCSI is for DOS/Microsoft
Windows -- other operating system would need software specific to the
OS.

OS/2, for instance, ships with everything you would need bundled with the
OS.

The one thing you would need to be careful of is that your Scanner would
need to support the ASPI interface in order to share the adapter board
with other drivers (CD-ROM, Hard drive, tape, etc).