[comp.os.os2.misc] SCSI controllers for OS/2 vs. 1.2 and higher?

seifert@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Ulrich Seifert) (09/15/90)

Greetings onto the net!

For some time now I am trying to find out which SCSI controllers are on the
market that can be used with HPFS.
Besides getting frustrated about really unknowing dealers (at least here in
Germany) I was not able to figure out anything productive.
So here is my last desperate attempt:

Does anybody know about a SCSI controller that comes with device driver
software for OS/2 vs. 1.2 (HPFS) ?
Up to now I only know of DPT SmartConnex that offers a MFM simulation mode.
But this one is really expensive (at least in Germany).

Anybody who can help ?

rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel) (09/17/90)

The WD 7000 controller&software contains an OS/2 driver. I did not 
yet see it but a dealer told me this.

In the basedd01.sys of my IBM OS/2 1.2 I found a device driver named
SCSIXPT$ which causes me to assume that it already supports a SCSI
controller, probably only the IBM one. Does anyone know which brand this
IBM SCSI controller is or if it is their own contruction?

Kai Uwe Rommel

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d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren) (09/19/90)

In article <4491@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:
>
>In the basedd01.sys of my IBM OS/2 1.2 I found a device driver named
>SCSIXPT$ which causes me to assume that it already supports a SCSI
>controller, probably only the IBM one. Does anyone know which brand this
>IBM SCSI controller is or if it is their own contruction?

IBM have their own SCSI controller, but I have heard a rumour thabecause
of some problems with their own controller, they OEMed a NCR controller.
I don't know if this is true, but I know IBM had some serious problems with
their own SCSI controller, making them actually stop and withdraw already
released/sold machines.


Mikael Wahlgren      d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se