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jfw@proteon.com (John Woods) writes:
>e4315555@student.uq.edu.au (Peter Naylor) writes:
>>Well, the only experience I've had with SCSI on a PC was when I installed 
>>a Sony magneto-optical and Adaptec controller on one of the machines at 
>>work.  It certainly needed a "driver" type file, and it came with the 
>>controller, not built-in.
>Magneto-optical drives probably require a special driver (as do CD-ROMs,
>by the way).  But traditional hard drives are handled by the BIOS.

I guess I should also point out that there is a 'modern' disk driver standard,
called ASPI, which uses a special driver in addition to (perhaps in place of?)
the BIOS code.  Note, however, that the ASPI driver is not written to a
dedicated bootstrap location on each harddrive (which the Mac driver is);
it is, instead, just a normal executable under the MS-DOS filesystem that
gets loaded at system startup time (more like a Mac System Extension).  If
you can live with the limits imposed by the BIOS, you also don't need it.