neese@cpe.UUCP (12/16/88)
>hi ! >does anyone have experiences with adaptec scsi controllers under xenix ?! Here at Tandy, we have been selling the AHA-1540 since 2/88. We have many machines running with 40,80,170,344 and 150MB tapes. It has been a very pleasant experience. The product is very good and reliable. We, like so many on the net, depend on our machines for our day to day existence and demand a reliable product for those machines. This one has been a winner. The performance is far better than any ST-506/ESDI drive controller combination we have used for the money. I don't want to sound like a commercial, but just another engineer who depends on good solid hardware. >i wonder if appropriate drivers exist, that make it a bootable drive/contr. >config . i figure i'll have to recompile the kernel anyway ?! >any help/info would be appreciated ! The drivers are not available from Tandy, but we do have a version of SCO Xenix (2.2.4) that supports both ST-506/SCSI and allows the SCSI device to be the boot device. SCO really did a nice job of incorporating the SCSI stuff into the OS. There is a gentleman I have had many E-mail conversations with who could give you some more info, as a completely independent user, but I don't have his path. If you have already invested in the OS, I can't help. I know the work that SCO did, was a bit more indepth than simply adding the driver. All the support routines work with it and the ability to boot was something really new. Multi controller support was also not trivial. If you would like more technical info, please e-mail me and I will respond. Roy Neese UUCP @ {killer, texbell, merch}!cpe!neese Tandy Computer Product Engineering