rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel) (02/20/90)
Hi ! I am looking for a SCSI controller to work with OS/2 on a C&T 386 board (24 Mhz) with AMI bios and a CDC Wren III SCSI disk. There are two controllers on the market in Germany I am thinking about. The first one is the Adaptec AHA-1542. I read about OS/2 drivers in this group some weeks ago. Now I asked a dealer for them but he told me that they had a beta version with nothing than problems and are still waiting (about 1 year) for a final version and do not await it before May. Also this drivers will not come with the controller but cost extra. So I do not longer think about buying this one because I will need it in the next three weeks or never again. Also, drivers available in the US are worthless for me even if I could get them because I do not have support for them in Germany. The other one is the WD 7000. I got an offer from a local dealer. He says that it comes with all drivers for OS/2, Unix, Xenix, Novell ... without extra cost (The Novell drivers for the Adaptec cost extra again) but the WD costs about 100 DM more than the Adaptec. The dealer said that the drivers for OS/2 are not restricted to any OS/2 flavor and they do not have problems with the current versions of the drivers and all OS/2 versions. Now the question: Does anyone already use the WD 7000 with OS/2 ? Do you have experiences of success/failure of installation ? Are there problems with special main BIOS versions (AMI, Phoenix ..) ? What about the performance ? (the dealer said it will be between 900k and 1.4M per second depending on machine and disk, the Adaptec does about 970k per second with the CDC disk under DOS on another 33Mhz cache board). Please answer via e-mail or follow-up, if you can't reach me. I will summarize the replies. Thanks, Kai Uwe Rommel Munich rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de