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- From: hho@phakt.usc.edu (** N.T.K.C.D. ***)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: HELP using a SCSI hard drive in my 386sx (how to configure?)
- Date: 11 Dec 1992 09:53:38 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- References: <Bz1xpr.9pM@acsu.buffalo.edu>
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- In article <Bz1xpr.9pM@acsu.buffalo.edu> v087mxgb@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (somewhere over Buffalo) writes:
- >I am intimately familiar with setting up RLL, MFM, and
- >IDE drives and controllers but have absolutely no
- >clue about SCSI (or ESDI for that matter).
-
- It is no different than RLL & MFM :-)
- >How do I select a controller card?
-
- I am highly recommend Adaptec controller card, else Future DOmain
- is OK :-)
-
- Controller cards are either 8 or 16 bits with our without cache etc :-)
-
- >Can I set this up as my only drive (I hear I might
- >need device drivers loaded from another drive ?!?!?!)
-
- If you get new generation of SCSI controller with its own bios
- you can format the drive bootable :-)
-
- >Must I set any jumpers/switches/terminator resistors, etc??
-
- Yes, just like other drives :-))
- In the SCSI world, the controller very picky about ther
- terminator..
-
- It must be in place a the end of the chain.
- So if you have #1 #2 #3 etc.. then the terminator must
- be in the last drive :-)
- That it..
- Good Luck..
-
- Personally, I find that SCSI drives are faster & more reliable :-))
- :-)
-
- Oh, no need for setup the CMOS either :-)
- :-)
- H.
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- Hung P. Ho, Jr. (John) USC DENTISTRY PH.SYSTEMS CCCOGP
- hho@usc.edu hung@phsys.com hung@cccogp.com
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