jdg@elmgate.UUCP (Jeff Gortatowsky CUST) (02/15/90)
I have aquired a CDC Wren IV 330mb embedded SCSI drive. Does anyone know where I can obtain a SCSI controller for a 386 AT bus style mother board? Do SCSI controllers come with a formatter program? Do they normally need a CONFIG.SYS loaded device driver or does the extended BIOS ROM on the SCSI controllers handle BIOS to SCSI translation. I'm VERY familiar the older ST506 ways of doing things. So I'm confused about how I'll tell the system about the drive. Or do the SCSI controllers handle it all. Anyone who can point me to a vendor where I can obtain a SCSI controller with formatter and if required, device driver (for DOS and OS/2), I like to hear from you. Thank you. -- Jeff Gortatowsky-Eastman Kodak Company .....sun!sunrock!elmgate!jdg (716)-726-0084 Eastman Kodak makes film not comments. Therefore these comments are mine not theirs.
mlau@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Mel Lau) (02/17/90)
Try the Adaptec AHA 154x SCSI controller. It has a built in bios so no need to worry about config.sys etc. I don't know about low level formating, (ie formating DAM..etc) but higher level formating (ie dos format) works as usual. Mel
david@metapyr.UUCP (David Relson) (02/19/90)
Look in some of the magazines like BYTE or PC WORLD. Two companies that I know of that have SCSI controllers are Hard Drive International and Shamrock. I believe they both have 800 numbers (call 1-800-555-1212 for information). Speak to their techical people to verify compatibility with your drive. From what I've heard, SCSI controllers are not presently compatibly with OS2. I believe it's that a SCSI controller has an on-board BIOS while OS2 includes its own HD bios which will talk to a standard controller, i.e. MFM, RLL, ESDI, IDE, but not SCSI. Good luck.