shite@unf7.UUCP (Stephen Hite) (03/27/91)
I think this question has been asked before but please bear with me. I
just bought an Adaptec 1542B to use with Interactive 2.2 and a Seagate
ST296N 84 meg SCSI drive. My motherboard is down but I tried to bring it
up as the D drive on a friend's Gateway 2000 386sx running DOS 4.01 that
has an 80 meg IDE drive as the C drive. I'm getting some message like
"cannot reroute int 13H". The Adaptec docs don't give a reason for this
problem other than it can't find any SCSI drives on the system.
Are the Seagate SCSI's brain dead and can only work with their cheapy
ST01 card or the Future Domain technology...both of which I've read
many flame articles on in comp.periphs.scsi for their sorry technology?
A friend of mine up north said that he thinks this is the case (after he
laughed in my face for "stooping so low as to get a ST296N"). <sigh>
However, my friend did applaud me for buying the stud 1542B as if that
makes me feel better for plunking down $300 for the drive...oh well, good
thing it was on a VISA.
Also, if this is the case then are there any other drives to watch out
for that have a problem? Thanks.
P.S. This is a *real* Seagate and not an Imprimis or CDC or something else
that Seagate stamped their name on. My friend also told me this can
happen sometimes.
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Steve Hite
UUCP: ...gatech!uflorida!unf7!shite
Internet: shite@sinkhole.unf.edunorcott@databs.enet.dec.com (Bill Norcott) (03/28/91)
In article <359@unf7.UUCP>, shite@unf7.UUCP (Stephen Hite) writes... > > Are the Seagate SCSI's brain dead and can only work with their cheapy >ST01 card or the Future Domain technology...both of which I've read >many flame articles on in comp.periphs.scsi for their sorry technology? >A friend of mine up north said that he thinks this is the case (after he >laughed in my face for "stooping so low as to get a ST296N"). <sigh> I can testify from personal experience that you CAN use the ST296N with the Adaptec 1542B. I used to have the Seagate until recently. It also performs MUCH better with the 1542B than with the Seagate ST01 controller. I was able to get 662 KB/sec with mine (vs 490 KB/sec with the ST01). This is on a drive with no cache buffers on it. I don't think the ST296N deserves a fraction of the knocks it has received. For a while it was the most cost effective small SCSI drive out there, and it got a lot of people (myself included) started on SCSI. The drive did suffer by often being packacked with the ST01 controller. Nowadays, the Quantum PRO 105 is a much better deal and much higer performance and there seems to be a price war on the 105 meg disks right now. Bill Norcott