mark@promark.UUCP (Mark J. DeFilippis) (10/03/89)
I guess the Adaptec Central Field Applications Engineer, don't know
much about the "current crop" of Adaptec controllers. In message <7100025>
He stated that _"All of the current crop of Adaptec controllers have jumpers
for secondary I/O ports and interrupts"_.
Well, I called Adaptec to confirm this statement, which they did! Great! They
even recommended a distributor who was fast, and efficient! Placed my order
Friday, got it Monday! And guess what, the ACB2310 I ordered DOES NOT have
the ability to change the interrupt. The edges are not even on the card!
As a matter of fact I was told later that only two cards, and ESDI and an
RLL card (Forget which ones) can actually change interrupt by jumper.
Does anyone know of a WD Card that has the interrupt jumpers? I would like
to avoid having to pick up the interrupt from the motherboard.
Thanks again
--
Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530 (516) 663-1170
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
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UUCP: ...philabs!sbcs!bnlux0!adelphi!markdkarl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) (10/04/89)
In article <184@promark.UUCP> mark@promark.UUCP (Mark J. DeFilippis) writes: >I guess the Adaptec Central Field Applications Engineer, don't know >much about the "current crop" of Adaptec controllers. In message <7100025> >He stated that _"All of the current crop of Adaptec controllers have jumpers >for secondary I/O ports and interrupts"_. > >Well, I called Adaptec to confirm this statement, which they did! Great! They >even recommended a distributor who was fast, and efficient! Placed my order > Friday, got it Monday! And guess what, the ACB2310 I ordered DOES NOT have >the ability to change the interrupt. The edges are not even on the card! That figures. The 2372 does have it. We're using one. Throughput on that board STINKS; we can't top 100KB/sec through SCO Xenix, while the WD1006 is some 3-4X faster (and has better ECC circuitry!) Grrrrrrrr... >Does anyone know of a WD Card that has the interrupt jumpers? I would like >to avoid having to pick up the interrupt from the motherboard. Unfortunately I haven't seen a WD board yet that has the jumper on it. I have complained loudly to the WD people here in town about this... so far they have no good answers, but promised to relay my complaints. -- Karl Denninger (karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM, <well-connected>!ddsw1!karl) Public Access Data Line: [+1 312 566-8911], Voice: [+1 312 566-8910] Macro Computer Solutions, Inc. "Quality Solutions at a Fair Price"
neese@adaptex.UUCP (10/07/89)
You are absolutely right! The 231[02] controllers do not have the jumpers
for the interrupt selection. I apologize for any confusion this may have
caused. That's what I get for reading the literature and not looking at the
board. All the RLL/ESDI/SCSI boards have the jumpers. Again, I am sorry for
the frustration/inconvienence.
Roy Neese
Adaptec Central Field Applications Engineer
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merch!adaptex!neese