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- From: vail@tegra.com (Johnathan Vail)
- Subject: Re: HELP!!! ACB-5500 and OMTI ASM 250 : Any information required -
- In-Reply-To: bdg@caril.inria.fr's message of 25 Jan 93 13:01:05 GMT
- Message-ID: <C1JB19.8vp@tegra.com>
- Organization: Tegra-Varityper, Inc. Billerica, MA
- References: <4892@seti.inria.fr>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:41:32 GMT
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- In article <4892@seti.inria.fr> bdg@caril.inria.fr (Di-Gennaro) writes:
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- Does anybody know the following (pressumed) SCSI adaptors :
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- - ADAPTEC ACB-5500
- - OMTI ASM 250
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- I'd like to know every kind of information about these
- two beast, for exemple :
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- - What kind of adaptor ( SCSI -> MFM ? )
- - What are the jumper settings available,
- - How much disk could they control,
- - What type of disk ( # head, cylinder ... max),
- - Type of hosts agreeing them
- - Specifications non SCSI ( perhaps )
- - All other information...
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- All I personaly know of these two cards is : What they look like.
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- I don't remember the details but I have used the Omti cards before.
- It used 2 floppy and two ST-506 MFM or ESDI disks and treated them as
- logical units of the same SCSI device ID (the way SCSI was supposed to
- work in the old days).
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- Unless you want to do a lot of SCSI programming yourself they are
- probably not worth using for anything. It required initializing a lot
- of mode pages to set up the controller for each drive connected and
- then the SCSI driver had to support the different LUNs. The ones I
- worked with (and the older Xebec controllers) were not SCSI-2.
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- Hope this helps,
-
- jv
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