reuss@umd5.umd.edu (Karl Reuss) (07/28/89)
I am interested in finding out what kinds of ESDI to SCSI controllers are available. I've got a situation where I would like to run several Maxtor XT-8760 ESDI drives off a SCSI based DECstation 3100. Recently in this group I heard mention of an Emulex MD21 controller which sounds like it could do what I need. Are there other makes and models ? Can any of them run more than 1 ESDI drive ? Performance is not a major concern, these disks will be used mostly for archival type storage. What I need idealy, I guess, would be a board that takes 4 ESDI drives and presents them as 1 large SCSI unit ( 4 units would be ok ). Any information on products, vendors, cost, etc. would be greatly appreciated. --- Karl Reuss Univ. of Maryland at College Park (reuss@umd5.umd.edu)
mo@prisma (07/28/89)
I think SCSI-2 stands a real chance of damaging the potential success of IPI-3 in the marketplace. The full-up double-wide double-fast SCSI-2 should be quite a bit faster than even the exteneded IPI-3 interface, and the prospect of one basic interface technology spanning the "cheap and dumb" to the "smart and very fast" devices is quite compelling. I really think Ciprico may have really been brilliant to make their 5.25" RAID controller a SCSI-2 device. -Mike O'Dell