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- Path: sparky!uunet!usna!math33!meh
- From: meh@math33.sma.usna.navy.mil (Michael E. Hoffman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
- Subject: SCSI in Z-386/16?
- Keywords: SCSI, Z-386/16, Adaptek 1542, Linux
- Message-ID: <2694@usna.NAVY.MIL>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 18:23:38 GMT
- Sender: news@usna.NAVY.MIL
- Reply-To: meh@math33.sma.usna.navy.mil (Michael E. Hoffman)
- Lines: 36
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- I am the lucky (:-)) owner of a 16-MHz Z-386. It has an ancient disk
- controller which supports two floppy drives and two 40-Meg MFM drives.
- Needless to say, I'm VERY short on disk space. I'd like to put in
- a SCSI board--I was thinking of the Adaptek 1542 in particular--and
- connect it to an external SCSI drive. If you'll excuse my naivete,
- I'd like to pose some questions for those with more experience:
-
- 1. Is this even possible? The Zenith BIOS only knows about the
- MFM controller. As I understand it, the SCSI controllers have their
- own BIOS. Is there a danger of the two conflicting somehow?
-
- 2. Does the SCSI board need its own IRQ? Is there a good one to
- use? (Besides the usual stuff, I just have an add-in board that gives
- me two additional serial ports--I can reconfigure the board to switch
- the IRQ's they use.)
-
- 3. Are there some brands of SCSI disk that would be better for this
- use than others?
-
- 4. If I get the Adaptek board, could I also add an external CD-ROM
- drive? I know SCSI is SUPPOSED to allow you up to 7 devices, but I also
- know it often doesn't work that way.
-
- I should add that my primary operating system is Linux, and my reason
- for mentioning the Adaptek is that it's on the list of supported boards.
- There are a few others, including the Ultrastore 14F (I think).
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- Prof. Mike Hoffman EMAIL: meh@math33.sma.usna.navy.MIL
- Dept. of Math., U.S. Naval Academy PHONE: (410) 267-3192
- Annapolis, MD 21402-5002 FAX: (410) 267-4883
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