mfaurot@irscscm.UUCP (Michael Faurot) (01/15/91)
I've got a 500M SMD drive I'd like to press into service with a machine running AT&T's System V/386 r3.2.1. The machine already has the 500M drive connected to it, but the only drivers available with the controller that it came with support MS-DOS. What I'd like to do is locate a vendor that can supply a SMD controller for a ISA bus PC that includes drivers for both AT&T System V/386 and MS-DOS. I'd heard of one vendor called Interphase located in Dallas that makes a SMD controller for PCs, but unfortunately their controller only comes with drivers for MS-DOS and some of the network operating systems such as Novell. If you know of a vendor that might be able to help please reply only by e-mail to mfaurot@bogart.UUCP.
johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) (01/16/91)
In article <1991Jan14.180127.11239@irscscm.UUCP> you write: >I've got a 500M SMD drive ... I'd heard of one vendor called Interphase >located in Dallas that makes a SMD controller for PCs, ... The most cost effective thing to do may be to sell off the SMD disk to someone who has a controller for some other machine and buy an ESDI or SCSI disk. The Interphase controller is the only SMD PC controller I've seen, and I've been looking on and off for over five years. I've used the that controller under DOS, and it does indeed work (it made a Fujitsu Eagle 600MB drive appear as DOS drives D: through O:.) But it costs over $1,000. For that price, you can buy 300MB of nice new SCSI or ESDI disk which is smaller and takes less power than your SMD disk and works with a normal cheap PC controller. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!iecc!johnl