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- From: RAICER@LSTC2VM.stortek.com (Bob Raicer)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
- Subject: Re: : NT-Compliant Hardware?
- Message-ID: <1685F7ACB.RAICER@LSTC2VM.stortek.com>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 14:43:54 GMT
- Sender: usenet@stortek.com
- Organization: StorageTek SW Engineering
- Lines: 47
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- I unfortunately purchased an UltraStor 14F SCSI host adapter. I say
- unfortuantely because although the hardware appears to be built
- rather well, I would *NOT* recommend anyone buying either the 14F
- (the AT/ISA bus version) or the 24F (the EISA bus version; I had
- one of these also) because:
-
- 1. UltraStor does not provide device driver support for IBM
- OS/2 2.0. I was told by UltraStor at the time I purchased
- their product (February 1992) that they would provide
- support for OS/2 2.0 at its G.A. time. To put it simply,
- they lied. They still do not have OS/2 2.0 driver support
- and as of last week, they still will not commit to any
- future availability dates. It doesn't look likely that
- they will do any better in the NT area.
-
- 2. I have encountered bugs in the code residing in the ROM
- on the 14F. Although they acknowledged the bugs, they
- have not offered any fixes nor do they have any form of
- a policy regarding ROM upgrades/replacements.
-
- 3. The 24F EISA host adapter has timing problems. It took
- three different 24F's before I got one that worked with
- an AMI Enterprise II EISA system board.
-
- 4. I currently own a NEC CDR84 CD-ROM drive. I cannot get
- it to work with the UltraStor 14F at all. UltraStor's
- technical support was less than useful. They said they
- knew of "problems with CD-ROMs", but offered no other
- help or solutions.
-
- I now use Adaptec SCSI host adpaters in both my AT/ISA bus and
- EISA bus machines. They work great! Device driver support is
- there for OS/2, DOS, and NT. Corel has a pretty good package
- of ASPI interfacing drivers for practically every kind of SCSI
- periperhal - and it works in both the DOS and OS/2 environments.
- There is a "combo" package available now called the SCSI Master
- Plus which includes an Adaptec 1542B and the Corel software.
-
- I guess you can tell I am sold on Adaptec. They have become the
- defacto SCSI adapter standard. Good Luck!
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- Storage Technology Corporation
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