evil@arcturus.uucp (Wade Guthrie) (10/11/90)
Mike Horne asks: > I've got a couple of SCSI hard drives [...] looking for SCSI > controller recommendations, in particular: > [fast, 16-bit, driver software, tape driver s/w] > An Adaptec card has been recommended to me (I don't know the model number), > but I'm also interested in others. I hear the Wester Digital FAST 7000 is a good card, but I chose the Adaptec (AHA-1542B) since they seemed to have a larger user base and seem to have a wider variety of support (e.g., SCO UNIX has an Adaptec driver, but not a WD7000). The AHA-1542B is a very fast board which provides an AT-bus-to-SCSI conversion. This particular board also has a floppy controller for 2 floppies (the AHA-1540B only has the AT-to-SCSI). For a DOS machine and only 2 hard disks, no driver is needed -- the board replaces the BIOS interrupt vector with its own. If you have non- SCSI disks, its okay, the AHA handles that too. If you want to add additional devices, you need a driver (which they sell for an additional $75) and if you want to add tape, you need yet another driver (for another $75). Hope this helps. -- Wade Guthrie (evil@arcturus.UUCP) | "He gasped in terror at what sounded Rockwell International; Anaheim, CA | like a man trying to gargle while My opinions, not my employer's. | fighting off a pack of wolves" | Hitchhiker's Guide