Keywords: Adaptec Ultrastor Buslogib Pioneer Exabyte Fujitsu Toshiba AMI ATI
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
References: <1250@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 19:20:43 GMT
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In <1250@alsys1.aecom.yu.edu> manaster@yu1.yu.edu (Chaim Manaster) writes:
>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've got the AHA-1740 (it's a 1742 without the floppy controller) and
I love it. Note that there is embedded Adaptec support in OS/2,
Windows/NT, and the PC variants of UNIX.
>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??
Adaptec is currently selling the Corel drivers themselves, so it seems
a good bet that they work with the Adaptec board. As for ASPI
compliance, I believe the 'A' in ASPI stands for Adaptec.
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