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Support for removable devices is supplied by IBM, not by Trantor. Remember, with OS/2, like with WINNT, all we supply is the low level interface between the operating system and the SCSI adapter. All the other drivers are supplied by the operating system manufacturer. We have found that since IBM treats removable media like a large floppy, if you format under OS/2, you can read it with our DOS drivers (since we also support that type of format). If you format it as a hard drive under DOS, OS/2 won't be able to read it. You will need to first do a low level format to your media under DOS with TFORMAT (remember to say YES not just Y when you are prompted for the driver under TFORMAT), then go to OS/2 and format it as though it was a floppy drive. See the OS2_read.ME file that comes with all our OS/2 drivers for more info on that. (see! it does pay to read the documentation!)