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Re: Suggestions for Video Card, Sound Card, CDROM etc.

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From: mglaris
Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 00:00
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In <3q5cqh$elk@news.mr.net>, nau@ribs.ssesco.com (William Nau) writes:
>mglaris@pic.net wrote:
>: Whatever you do, don't buy an ATI video card of any type.  I have
>: had nothing but problems with my ATI Graphics Ultra Pro, and a
>: friend has had problems with another type of ATI card.
>
>There were problems iwth their Mach32 series.  However thier
>Mach64 series is fantastic.  Works very well with Warp.

Well, perhaps their Mach64's are great, but I will NEVER buy an 
ATI again.  Once bitten, twice shy.

>: I plan 
>: on removing the ATI card in the near future an replacing it with 
>: a Diamond Steath-64 PCI (another firent has one and loves it).
>
>Bad move.  Diamond is the real evil when it comes to OS/2 and
>sometimes MS-Windows.  Their boards are poorly built and thier
>tech support is evil.  They become downright rude at the mere
>mention of OS/2.

Interesting.  We have has success with the Daimon Stealth boards.
Hvae not (yet) had to call tech support though.

>: Also loose the IDE controller and get a real SCSI controller.  
>: Adaptec makes a real good SCSI controller.
>
>They do.  Adaptec is also the most widely supported controllers
>on the market.  A good choice if you can afford it.  If you
>can't afford it, Future Domain is a good alternative for about
>half the money.
>

What to you know about BusLogic SCSI adapters?  We just got a new
system with one and I am having a dickens of a time installing Warp
onto the system.  It manages to install, but when I reboot after
the installation is complete, it cannot access the harddrive.  But
even this is wierd, becayse it can read enough of the hard drive to
display the OS/2 logo.

Mike Laris
mglaris@pic.net
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From: mglaris@pic.net
Subject: Re: Suggestions for Video Card, Sound Card, CDROM etc.
Date: 1995/05/27
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