I am curious as to why it seems that a lot of the members here would rather intergrate the mass storage drivers with the OS ones instead of using the OEM/TEXTMODE method?

BUMP.

i would rather have my SCSI controller in the windows textsetup loaded by itself, not from winnt.sif or any additional oem/textmode... this also hepls ALOT, if i want to test it on a virtual PC/VMware... as it would fail without the SCSI controller present... when put into windows textsetup itself, no errors even if not present...

i stink at english

i would rather have my SCSI controller in the windows textsetup loaded by itself, not from winnt.sif or any additional oem/textmode... this also hepls ALOT, if i want to test it on a virtual PC/VMware... as it would fail without the SCSI controller present... when put into windows textsetup itself, no errors even if not present...

i stink at english 

That was better English than many people I've seen for whom it's their native language

And your point was VERY well put.

The TEXTMODE driver function doesn't work when booting from a CD.