rspangle@jarthur.claremont.edu (Froot Loop) (01/11/91)
I have a 386/16 MHz PC-clone with an ISA bus. I do run MS Windows 3.0 and QEMM 5.1. I want to put a 44 MB SyQuest removable hard drive on it. I talked to John at Hard Drives International today, and he recommended an Allways (sp.) card, claiming that the SyQuest drive had problems with the Adaptec 1542 cards (can you comment on this, Roy?) I found out that the Allways card is supposed to be a 16-bit card capable of 10 Mbit/sec transfer rates. So my questions are: * Does anyone have experience with this combination of hardware? How will the system cope with switching disks? * How compatible is the Allways card with other hard drives and devices? Am I correct in assuming it's a bus master? Does it require a driver? Will it remap cylinders/heads so that I can use large (>300MB) drives with it? How does it compare to the Adaptec cards in terms of performance and support? (I know there are a few ftp sites with Adaptec stuff.) * Is $638 a good price for the combo (the SyQuest would be internal, comes with no disks)? I think John quoted me a price of $449 on the bare internal drive with no controller or disks. * Did anyone ever figure out how to swap removable disks between a Mac and a PC? (My roommate already has a SyQuest and a Mac II) Please reply by email to rspangle@jarthur.claremont.edu I'll summarize the responses in a week or two.