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- From: gisie@wam.umd.edu (Satan)
- Subject: Chip Sets, SCSI & Other Lore...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.182113.7142@wam.umd.edu>
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- Organization: University of Maryland, College Park
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 18:21:13 GMT
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- I am getting ready to purchase an EISA motherboard and have
- found a variety of chip set manufacturers...
-
- I currently have an ISA board that uses the SIS chip set and
- have had no problems to date. ANy reason *not* to buy an EISA
- board using this chip set?
-
- Also, are the new AMI 486 bioses out yet?
-
- Last, along with the motherboard I am going to buy a caching SCSI
- card to go along with it. Currently I am looking at the AMI Fast
- Disk EISA SCSI Caching Host, the DPT SmartCache Plus and the
- Adaptec EISA SCSI Master (which isnt a caching card). The AMI
- uses a 386 processor to handle the cache - does this equate to
- a better performing card? Any suggestions on which of these to go
- with?
-
- I plan to have 1 SCSI hard disk (quantum) and 1 NEC CDR-84 hooked
- up to the SCSI card. Will it be better to use the manufacturers
- SCSI drivers or 3rd party such as the COREL SCSI drivers???
-
- TIA,
- tim
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