chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) (03/15/90)
Original-posting-by: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Original-subject: Re: Is Future Domain SCSI card any good? Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) According to bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion): >This was my second attempt. The first time I tried to install SCO >Xenix and found that the Future Domain controller requires a kernel to >be built on the machine after installing a 506/Esdi drive, and gen'ing >a bootable SCSI kernel and then removing that drive and replacing with >the SCSI controller/drive. Such would be the case with any hard disk controller not directly supported by Xenix. >Is this combination, which appears to have been >bought with low dollar in mind, a viable system. My not so humble opinion: Future Domain SCSI should AVOIDED at all costs. Under no circumstances would I ever buy anything from Future Domain. I was once forced by the decision of some marketdroid to use the Future Domain TMC-830 and -870 for a time. They are embarrassingly slow. Things were so bad that my editor would stop echoing keystrokes during the periodic buffer sync. If you want speed, go with the Adaptec SCSI controller, which is supported directly by SCO Xenix 2.3GT, or with one of the register-compatible alternatives, which will work with any SCO release. -- Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT <chip%tct@ateng.com>, <uunet!ateng!tct!chip> "The Usenet, in a very real sense, does not exist."