frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) (05/24/91)
I am planning to upgrade my machine a bit - remove the 100MByte ESDI disk I currently have, and installing a 600-700MByte SCSI disk instead. The disk which I am currently considering is from Microscience, (type FH4777, capacity 643 Mbytes, I think), although it appears to be manufactured by Siemens - does anybody have any expperience of this disk ? My question is - which controller should I get ? I am considering controllers from Adaptec and Future Domain, but am having a problem deciding. Somebody out there must have done something similar....so if you have any experience (good or bad) with this disk or any reason for recommending the controllers from one of the companies rather than the other one, I would appreciate hearing from you. Just send me the replies - don't post, I will post a summary if there is any interest. -frisk Fridrik Skulason Technical Editor of the Virus Bulletin (UK) (author of F-PROT) E-Mail: frisk@rhi.hi.is Fax: 354-1-28801
sip1@quads.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) (05/26/91)
In article <3182@krafla.rhi.hi.is> frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason) writes: >My question is - which controller should I get ? I am considering controllers >from Adaptec and Future Domain, but am having a problem deciding. I'm also looking for an SCSI controller (hard and high density floppy) for my AT. Does anyone have any recommendations? It should be OS/2 1.3 HPFS compatible. Would it make sense to go with one that appears to software as a regular Western Digital MFM-type controller? (The controller emulates all the registers and maps all requests to the SCSI bus as appropriate.) Please e-mail and I'll summarize to the net if interest warrants. T.F.S. sip1@quads.uchicago.edu Timothy F. Sipples sip1@sam.spc.uchicago.edu