corwin@polari.UUCP (Don Glover) (10/03/89)
I have the opportunity to get a 'old' twin drive 10meg IOMEGA Bournelli box. I am wondering whether this will be compatible with a 386 machine running either Xenix 286 2.2.3 or Xenix 386 2.3.2? Does anyone have any experience with these?
mikes@NCoast.ORG (Mike Squires) (10/05/89)
In article <1066@polari.UUCP> corwin@polari.UUCP (Don Glover) writes: >I have the opportunity to get a 'old' twin drive 10meg IOMEGA Bournelli >box. I am wondering whether this will be compatible with a 386 machine >running either Xenix 286 2.2.3 or Xenix 386 2.3.2? Does anyone have >any experience with these? Tandy sells 700-1502, Tandy/SCO drivers, that work with the Bernouilli (10MB) and SCO XENIX 2.2.4.
bruce@mdi386.UUCP (Bruce A. McIntyre) (10/05/89)
In article <1066@polari.UUCP>, corwin@polari.UUCP (Don Glover) writes: > I have the opportunity to get a 'old' twin drive 10meg IOMEGA Bournelli > box. I am wondering whether this will be compatible with a 386 machine > running either Xenix 286 2.2.3 or Xenix 386 2.3.2? Does anyone have > any experience with these? I have used (past tense) Bournulli drives on my machine for a few years. However, when I upgraded to Xenix386, I was told that there were no drivers available, and there were no plans to do them (since IOmega wasn't going to pay for them). If you need the drivers for the 286, I will be glad to let you contact me about them. The drives work fine, the response time is reasonable, but I lost access to them since I have been on 386 for over a year. You need to make sure that you have the later interface card as well. bruce -- ========================================================================= Bruce A. McIntyre, McIntyre Designs, Inc. VOICE(215)322-1895 143 Bridgetown Pike, Langhorne, Pa. 19047 DATA (215)357-2915 {wells|lgnp1}!mdi386!bruce bruce@mdi386 tbit+
uhclem@trsvax.UUCP (10/06/89)
<> B>I have the opportunity to get a 'old' twin drive 10meg IOMEGA Bournelli B>box. How old? In particular, are the drives in a IBM-PC-sized cabinet, ie full-height? If so, don't bother. Some of these models did not have the ECC working correctly and Iomega advised that you not format with ECC (just CRC). That's great, but the drivers I am about to mention always turn ECC on. If you have a model/serial, call Iomega for the detailed poop. B>I am wondering whether this will be compatible with a 386 machine B>running either Xenix 286 2.2.3 or Xenix 386 2.3.2? If the drives are half-height, then Tandy sells drivers that will work with 286 or 386 XENIX. The drivers support 10 Meg 8", 20 Meg 8" and 20 Meg 5.25", up to 4 drives. (I don't know if they work on the new 44's, as I have never had the chance to try one.) Finally, make sure your CPU's BUS speed is not too great for the Iomega adapter card you are getting. Some will work up to about 9 MHz BUS speed. Usually that isn't a problem if you have a 16 or 25 MHz computer (bus speed ends up 8 or 8.3333 MHz), but if you have a 20 MHz CPU system, the bus speed COULD be 10 MHz. The drivers I speak of come when you buy SCO XENIX (286 or 386) directly from Tandy. Apparently you can get them separately with 700-1502. I have heard that Iomega now has XENIX drivers too, so you might contact them. They are in Roy Utah. <This information is provided by an individual and is not nor should be construed as being provided by Radio Shack or Tandy Corp. Radio Shack/Tandy Corp has no obligation to support the information provided in any way. But Iomega and Tandy aren't friends anymore...> "Thank you, Uh Clem." Frank Durda IV @ <trsvax!uhclem> ...decvax!microsoft!trsvax!uhclem ...hal6000!trsvax!uhclem