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Hi Fred,<br />
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You're correct. few of the drives were build in 2012. most of the RAW drives are build in Windows 2012. like Windows Driver Model , &nbsp;USB, Audio, SCSI and network card adapters. They should usually be source and binary compatible between Windows 98 and Windows 2000 and are hardware specific but control access to the hardware through a specific bus class driver.<br />
I would suggest to you go through the below two links to understand little clear .. <br />
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<a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/hh825070.aspx" rel="ugc">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/hh825070.aspx</a><br />
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<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff545448(v=vs.85).aspx" rel="ugc">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff545448(v=vs.85).aspx</a>
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Hi Fred,

You're correct. few of the drives were build in 2012. most of the RAW drives are build in Windows 2012. like Windows Driver Model ,  USB, Audio, SCSI and network card adapters. They should usually be source and binary compatible between Windows 98 and Windows 2000 and are hardware specific but control access to the hardware through a specific bus class driver.
I would suggest to you go through the below two links to understand little clear ..

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/hh825070.aspx [http://technet.microsoft.com/en-in/library/hh825070.aspx]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff545448(v=vs.85).aspx [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff545448(v=vs.85).aspx]

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I need to purchase a SCSI card for my Server 2012 R2 system. &nbsp;When searching for drivers for the SCSI card I'm looking at, it says:<br />
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Drivers listed below are included with the operating system:<br />
Microsoft Windows Server 2012<br />
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But no mentioned of Server 2012 R2. &nbsp;Would you imply this means it's not compatible, or would you expect R2 to have the same in-built driver range as 2012?
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I need to purchase a SCSI card for my Server 2012 R2 system.  When searching for drivers for the SCSI card I'm looking at, it says:

Drivers listed below are included with the operating system:
Microsoft Windows Server 2012

But no mentioned of Server 2012 R2.  Would you imply this means it's not compatible, or would you expect R2 to have the same in-built driver range as 2012?

Would Server 2012 R2 have the same in-built drivers as Server 2012?

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.