Subject: SCSI compatibility on EISA: Recommendations.
Keywords: Adaptec Ultrastor Buslogib Pioneer Exabyte Fujitsu Toshiba AMI ATI
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Date: 30 Dec 92 04:07:39 GMT
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I intend to add an Exabyte tape drive (EXB-8205), Pioneer cdrom drive (DRM-604X)and a Toshiba (MK538FB) or a Fujitsu (M2266S) 1Gig + hard drive to my system.
My system now consists of an AMI Eenterprise II motherboard, with a 486/33DX CPU and a Western Digital 1009 ESDI controller and an ATI Wonder + video card and a
Dunord scanner interface card along with 16M of RAM.
I would appreciate recommendations and advice concerning my choice of the above
SCSI devices, your experiences with them, both good and bad, difficulty to
install them in your system (please clarify if EISA ot not), and compatibility
problems if any. A run down of the installation procedure and a check list of
things to look out for would be most appreciated.
Equally important will be my choice of SCSI adaptor boards. I need to choose
between the following three: Adaptec 1742, Ultrastor 24F, and the Buslogic ???,
(I don't know there EISA SCSI model No.). My prime concerns are:
COMPATIBILITY, availability of DEVICE DRIVERS for the above peripherals,
support of SCSI II and FAST SCSI and of course reliability and ease of
installation. I am a novice with respect to SCSI so I need all the help I
can get.
I will need to obtain device drivers for the above devices, anyone know of any
that will support any of these boards. Unfortunately, Corel SCSI has not yet
been tested with the EISA version SCSI boards, thus Corel tech support
could (would) not guaranty compatibility (although for example the ISA
Adaptec 1542B has been tested OK). It might help to know if these boards are
fully ASPI compatible and if that guaranties that the Corel drivers will work.
Does anyone out there have any experience with the Corel SCSI drivers and are
they appropriate for EISA SCSI boards or only the 8 bit cards they were
originally written for??
It occurs to me that the DOS solution might not be valid for OS/2 or UNIX.
Any comments in this regard? At the moment My work is done in DOS/WINDOWS,
howvever, I am testing a small OS/2 partition and will consider UNIX and
NT in the near future, but at the moment, my main concern is the DOS/WINDOWS
world that I currently exist in.
Consider EMail for your response and I will summarize and post.