ben@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Ben Fried) (07/24/90)
Does anyone know which SCSCI adapters PS/2 AIX 1.2 supports? I'm looking at getting more disk space for a PS/2 model 70 running AIX, and Big Blue's big disk prices are so outrageous, it would be a lot cheaper to buy a SCSI adapter and then get some big, fast scsi drive. Will this work with AIX? Does AIX work with third-party SCSI adapters? With third-party SCSI disks? Thanks in advance for any help. Ben -- Benjamin Fried ben@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu rutgers!columbia!ben
rbn@umd5.umd.edu (Ron Natalie) (07/24/90)
1.2 comes with support for the two IBM microchannel SCSI adapters (16 bit, and 32bit-cached). We've also got a adaptec SCSI board (bought when the rumors were flying that the IBM boards were going to be delayed), but we never got around to writing a driver for it. We're fairly happy with the 16 bit adapter. We don't see much, if any, performance difference with the 32-bit/cached adapter. -Ron