court@nuge110.its.rpi.edu (Court Demas) (02/22/91)
I know there have been many questions about the Archive 2150s and Adaptec 1542b, but I feel another is neede- It there any way to use the Archive drive without spending $225 on the damn SY-TOS drivers? Is it me or does that sound like an enormous amount of money for a driver? I can get a used 2150s for $200, and I already bought the $300 controller - I'd hate to spend that much more money on it.. court
norsk@sequent.UUCP (Doug Thompson) (02/23/91)
In article <2F`&XB-@rpi.edu> court@nuge110.its.rpi.edu (Court Demas) writes: > >I know there have been many questions about the Archive 2150s and Adaptec >1542b, but I feel another is neede- > >It there any way to use the Archive drive without spending $225 on the >damn SY-TOS drivers? Is it me or does that sound like an enormous amount >of money for a driver? I can get a used 2150s for $200, and I already >bought the $300 controller - I'd hate to spend that much more money on it.. Boy have you got a bad dealer quote!! I bought my SYTOS application program (it is NOT a driver, rather it is a app program that utilizes the ASPI interface support by the ASPI4DOS.SYS driver - any program can utilize the interface. And that is what I am doing to port tar to dos) for $62.00 from Wyle Labs. It supports streamers and 8MM. They have one for $92.oo that supports DAT and is the SYSDOS plus (what ever that does). Another module supports CD-ROMs by providing a CD-ROM MicroSoft Extensions driver which also uses the ASPI interface. > >court -- Douglas Thompson UUCP: ..{tektronix,ogicse,uunet}!sequent!norsk Internet: norsk@sequent.com "The scientist builds to learn; the engineer learns in order to build." Fred Brooks