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- From: jimc@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (James Carpenter)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: SCSI Controller
- Date: 14 Dec 1992 22:00:35 GMT
- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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- Message-ID: <1gj063INN15q@life.ai.mit.edu>
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- Keywords: scsi, st01, tmc, quantum
-
- I would like to thank everyone that has given me advice about the ST-01.
-
- I have never before worked with SCSI so I have a couple of other questions.
-
- 1. I'm thinking about starting out with a 85 meg. Quantum with the ST-01.
- Does anyone know if the Quantum will get along with the Segate
- controller?
-
- 2. I have two 40 meg. MFM drives currently installed with a 16 bit 1:1 WD
- controller. Can I keep the MFMs when I get the SCSI? Will the speed of
- the MFMs decrease? (I don't know too much about hardware either)
-
- 3. I also have a Baby AT case with the 2 hard drvies and 2 floppys. The case
- is full. Does the ST-01 have an external port? Is it a 25 or 50 pin?
-
- 4. Would I be better off with a Future Domain TMC850? Is it accepted by
- Linux as much as the ST-01? Will it get along with the Quantum? Does it
- have an external port? Is it a 25 or 50 pin port?
-
- Its either the ST-01 or the TMC850. I don't have enough money to get
- anything else (unless I don't get the drive :-)). And I'm want this Quantum
- because it is at an acceptable price and comes with the external case and
- the cables I'll need. The Quantum is an 85 meg. 17 ms.
-
- I would go IDE but I want to keep the MFMs. I already got two other 40 meg.
- drives gathering dust because I upgraded to IDE on a different machine.
-
- Sorry for asking so many questions. But I do need the space and I can't
- afford to make a mistake.
-
- Thanks,
-
-
- -Jim Carpenter
- CARPENTER@Eisner.DECUS.Org
- jimc@gnu.ai.mit.edu
-