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- From: williams@herky.cs.uiowa.edu (Kent Williams)
- Subject: Re: Always Technology IN-2000 SCSI Controller
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.153132.17780@news.uiowa.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:31:32 GMT
- References: <1993Jan06.091157.18161@stiatl.salestech.com>
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- From article <1993Jan06.091157.18161@stiatl.salestech.com>, by rknight@stiatl.salestech.com (Ray Knight):
- > The Always IN-2000 currently does not have a native driver. It uses the INT13 driver and performance suffers greatly because of it.
- >
-
- Here's the deal.
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- Columbia Data Products will ship this Friday a native SCSI driver for OS/2.
- I have ordered it; as soon as I get it I will report back on how well it
- all works.
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- You need to have the BIOS version VCN-03; you probably don't have this unless
- you bought your IN2000 in the last 10 minutes. The BIOS version is displayed
- when you boot.
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- Columbia will sell you the BIOS upgrade with the driver software. The cost
- for the BIOS upgrade and the OS/2 Driver is 65$.
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- This is an ADD driver; not an ASPI driver. The Allways guys aren't sure
- but think it may support some ASPI functions.
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- Allways claims they will be selling this driver also, but are trying to get
- a better price from Columbia so they can sell it at < 50$.
-
- I decided not to wait; Allways is amazingly slow to do anything. $65 plus
- shipping is a bitter pill to swallow, but it's cheaper than going out and
- buying an Adaptec controller. I paid $200 for the controller 3 years ago,
- paid them 25$ for the BIOS upgrade to allow OS/2 to run. So now I will have
- > 300$ into the Allways controller.
-
- Anyone considering buying a SCSI Controller would be well advised to get
- the Adaptec right off; since the cost of the IN2000 plus the drivers puts
- it extremely close to the Adaptec price.
-
- I'm hoping this is the end of the Allways IN2000 fiasco. Time will tell.
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- "You, Varlet! Why so blithe?" -- from "Shreck" by William Steig
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