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- From: ralf@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Ralf Schlatterbeck)
- Subject: ISC + ESDI + SCSI possible! (Summary)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.090314.18405@email.tuwien.ac.at>
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- Organization: Technical University of Vienna
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 09:03:14 GMT
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- That's all I got 'til now, I'm going to buy a 1GB DEC SCSI drive and the Adaptec
- 1542B Controller today. Hope it helps.
- Ralf
-
- Forwarded messages:
- > From richk@grebyn.com Mon Sep 7 23:41:02 1992
- > From: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
- > Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- >
- > In article <1992Sep7.083828.15502@email.tuwien.ac.at> you write:
- [ original article deleted]
- >
- > You don't say what version of Interactive Unix you're running, but the
- > place I work ran just that configuration (a 300M ESDI drive on a WD
- > 1007 controller, and a Micropolis 1.3G SCSI drive on an Adaptec 1542A
- > controller) without any drama. The configuration is straightforward;
- > use "kconfig" to configure HPDD with the controllers you mention. If
- > you've got ISC 3.0, then you'll be telling HPDD configuration your
- > drive configuration too, but with 2.2 it didn't ask. Then use sysadm
- > diskmgmt addharddisk to set up the new drive.
- >
- > Oh, and get the Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller. They don't make the
- > 1542A anymore, and the 1522 is slower (but cheaper), and not supported
- > by ISC 2.2 (1522 support was added in 3.0). You could get the Adaptec
- > 1540B, which is just the same as the 1542B but it doesn't have the
- > floppy controller, but later on you might find the floppy controller
- > useful if you end up pulling out the ESDI controller later (like we
- > did).
- > --
- > Richard Krehbiel richk@grebyn.com
- > OS/2 2.0 will do for me until AmigaDOS for the 386 comes along...
- >
- > From daemon@pta.pyramid.com.au Tue Sep 8 02:02:15 1992
- > From: keith@garman (Keith Brinck)
- >
- [ original article deleted]
- >
- > I have just done exactly this: added a 1Gb Wren VII SCSI disk to my existing
- > 330Mb ESDI setup under ISC 3.0. I used the Adaptec 1542B and had no problems
- > at all. I also added an Archive 150Mb SCSI tape drive.
- >
- > Hope this helps,
- >
- >
- > From cncvie!rs@tuvie.can.ac.at Tue Sep 8 09:07:30 1992
- > From: rs@cncvie.at (Rainer Spritzendorfer)
- > Organization: CNC Cybernetic GmbH
- >
- > Ich habe bei mir folgende Konfiguration:
- >
- > No-Name 486/25 ISA 16Mb
- > WD1007V-SE2 (ESDI) mit 350Mb Micropolis als primary controller
- > Adaptec 1542B mit 400Mb Quantum als secondary controller
- >
- > ISC V3.2 3.0
- >
- > -> absolut kein Problem, kann ich sehr empfehlen.
- >
- > Gruesse
- > Rainer
- > --
- > Rainer Spritzendorfer rs@cncvie.at (or) ...!uunet!tuvie!cncvie!rs
- > CNC-Cybernetic GmbH
- > A-1070 Vienna, Austria
- >
- > From vtl@tik.vtt.fi Tue Sep 8 16:57:05 1992
- > From: Tapio Luukkanen <vtl@tik.vtt.fi>
- >
- > It is possible, yes.
- >
- > I have 340 Mb ESDI (boot) + 220 Mb SCSI (WD 7000-FASST card).
- > I am using WD's own SCSI-driver, not the ISC driver, though.
- >
- > The foremost thing is to change the scsi-card's default
- > interrupt number to something other than what the ESDI card uses.
- >
- > Tapio
- >
- > From technix!jfw@kksys.kksys.mn.org Wed Sep 9 06:20:38 1992
- > From: jfw@technix.technix.mn.org (Jerry Wallace)
- > Organization: Private System - Saint Paul, MN
- >
- > You write:
- [ original article deleted]
- >
- > You'll have to boot from the ESDI drive. Otherwise it should work well.
- > --
- > Jerry Wallace TechNIX, Inc.
- > Electronic: jfw@technix.mn.org 103 Healy Building
- > Acoustic: Installing 2301 Como Avenue
- > Ballistic: Hah! Saint Paul, MN 55108
- --
- Ralf Schlatterbeck
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