randall@Virginia.EDU (Ran Atkinson) (05/21/91)
In article <912@volvo.vd.volvo.se> Someone writes: >Hello hardware hackers out there. >I'm designing a scsi interface to an ms-dos machine. [remainder deleted to conserve bandwidth :-)] Hardware specific discussions really belong more in comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware or maybe comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware or maybe in both of those. This posting quoted above and a few others that arrived here today are concerned with chip-level interfacing and other hardware stuff and really are misplaced in comp.os.msdos.programmer. Please lets all try to be more careful in selecting newsgroups before we post please. :-) And we thank you for your support.
<U35828@uicvm.uic.edu> (05/27/91)
Does anyone have anything good to say about the WD 7000 FASST2 SCSI host adapter? Is there anyone out there who has used this particular piece of hardware? An inquiring mind would like to know. Would this be a prudent choice for someone who would like to daisy chain devices externally (i.e. a Tecmar 8mm tape drive or a Chinon external CD-rom drive or both)? Please send E-mail to (U35828@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU); I am not a frequent reader of this section. Thanks
jrd@cc.usu.edu (06/01/91)
In article <91146.221157U35828@uicvm.uic.edu>, <U35828@uicvm.uic.edu> writes: > Does anyone have anything good to say about the WD 7000 FASST2 SCSI host ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > adapter? Is there anyone out there who has used this particular piece > of hardware? An inquiring mind would like to know. > > Would this be a prudent choice for someone who would like to daisy chain > devices externally (i.e. a Tecmar 8mm tape drive or a Chinon external > CD-rom drive or both)? > > Please send E-mail to (U35828@UICVM.CC.UIC.EDU); I am not a frequent > reader of this section. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Thanks -------------------------------- <null name>: The WD 7000 FASST2 board is quite competent, thankyou, and has a nice set of DOS utilities bundled with it. There are other vendors offering equivalent products, Adaptec and Future Domain for two, so one has to do the basic research and talking with the vendors to make a local decision. SCSI requires that you do systems integration work, and that means spending time on the phone and on the vendors BBS's to gather compatibility info for all the pieces before making final selections. Yes, that is a pain but the results are worth it. I would shop carefully for the software drivers and supporting applications programs associated with each peripheral (ask the peripheral manufacturer). Joe D.