From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Rich"  wrote:
>   You don't expect a mainframe to automatically detect any off the
>shelf adapter that is plugged in.  The PC could go back to the dark ages
>too as this is how things used to be when the PC first came to be.

You don't expect a PC to automatically detect any off the shelf adapter
that is plugged in, either. A device driver has to be present that will
recognise the adapter's ID or that the adapter is plug compatible with
another. OS/2 and Windows 9x have device drivers that recognise plug
compatible adapters. The c.s.i.p.h folks are currently running tests using
the Windows 9x Spock SCSI driver for the dozen or so plug compatible Micro
Channel SCSI adapters from various manufacturers that are known to exist.

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