vrona@vpnet.UUCP (David Vrona) (01/02/90)
I recently purchased a Mylex MWS386-20 motherboard with 4 MByte main memory. I had intentions of running ISC UNIX on the box but I have recently become concerned by some negative references to Mylex in this conference. I intend on adding an Adaptec 1542A, an Archive tape, and a Quantum disk to the system. Am I in for trouble with this configuration? Thanks...
gwr@linus.UUCP (Gordon W. Ross) (01/12/90)
In article <259f8f41:664comp.unix.i386@vpnet.UUCP>, vrona@vpnet.UUCP (David Vrona) writes: > I recently purchased a Mylex MWS386-20 motherboard with 4 MB... May I congradulate you on your excellent choice! I'm not sure who was bashing Mylex, but I've been very happy with the Mylex 386-20 (4 MB) I purchased about six months ago, and I've never heard from a Mylex owner who was dissatisfied with the board. The board comes with good documentation, a 4 year warranty, and it's made in the USA! ISC UNIX will probably run fine on the Mylex. I'v had ESIX on my machine for a few months. No problems (except for user error). Note well about ESIX: Lots of people here are bashing ESIX based on experience with their Rev.A and Rev.B releases, especially the terribly slow X servers that were included. However, be assured, the X server in ESIX Rev.C (now current) is completely different. The new X server supports several graphics cards and hi-res modes and runs at a very respectable speed. The ESIX people claim they worked hard on the X server for Rev.C and I think it shows. The other major improvement (and reason I paid the $99 upgrade fee) was the cartridge tape driver (for Wangtec and others) which now can keep the tape streaming. The Rev.B tape driver always did a painfully slow: start,stop,start,stop,... for as much as a half hour! Here's a useful tidbit on setting up your Mylex board for UNIX. I initially had trouble installing UNIX (the boot floppy would hang the machine) and it turned out that the Mylex BIOS feature of emulating an 80387 chip was confusing the UNIX boot program. I turned off the '387 emulation feature and UNIX works like a charm. I have no affiliation with either Mylex nor ESIX other than as a satisfied customer. I think ESIX is a bargain. -- Gordon W. Ross (E025) ARPA: gwr@linus.mitre.org The MITRE Corporation UUCP: {decvax,philabs}!linus!gwr Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 (617) 271-3205
larry@nstar.UUCP (Larry Snyder) (01/13/90)
I am glad to hear that ESIX is working out for you rather well. Have
they released their fast file system yet?
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Larry Snyder, Northern Star Communications, Notre Dame, IN USA
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