From: manaster@yu1.yu.edu (Chaim Manaster)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: SCSI compatibility on EISA: Recommendations.
Date: 31 Dec 92 02:50:31 GMT
Organization: Yeshiva University

To: manaster@yu1.yu.edu
Subject: Re: SCSI compatibility on EISA: Recommendations.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Organization: School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, UCLA
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>From alsys1!yu1.yu.edu!manaster Wed Dec 30 19:55:12 1992
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>From: manaster@yu1.yu.edu (Chaim Manaster)
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>Subject: SCSI compatibility on EISA: Recommendations.
>Keywords: Adaptec Ultrastor Buslogic Pioneer Exabyte Fujitsu Toshiba AMI ATI
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>I intend to add an Exabyte tape drive (EXB-8205), Pioneer cdrom drive (DRM-604X)and a Toshiba (MK538FB) or a Fujitsu (M2266S) 1Gig + hard drive to my system.


>My system now consists of an AMI Eenterprise II motherboard, with a 486/33DX
>CPU and a Western Digital 1009 ESDI controller and an ATI Wonder + video card 
>and a Dunord scanner interface card along with 16M of RAM.

>I would appreciate recommendations and advice concerning my choice of the above
>SCSI devices, your experiences with them, both good and bad, difficulty to
>install them in your system (please clarify if EISA ot not), and compatibility
>problems if any. A run down of the installation procedure and a check list of
>things to look out for would be most appreciated.

>Equally important will be my choice of SCSI adaptor boards. I need to choose
>between the following three: Adaptec 1742, Ultrastor 24F, and the Buslogic ???,
>(I don't know there EISA SCSI model No.). My prime concerns are:
>COMPATIBILITY, availability of DEVICE DRIVERS for the above peripherals, 
>support of SCSI II and FAST SCSI and of course reliability and ease of
>installation. I am a novice with respect to SCSI so I need all the help I
>can get.

>I will need to obtain device drivers for the above devices, anyone know of any
>that will support any of these boards. Unfortunately, Corel SCSI has not yet
>been tested with the EISA version SCSI boards, thus Corel tech support
>could (would) not guaranty compatibility (although for example the ISA
>Adaptec 1542B has been tested OK). It might help to know if these boards are 
>fully ASPI compatible and if that guaranties that the Corel drivers will work.
>Does anyone out there have any experience with the Corel SCSI drivers and are
>they appropriate for EISA SCSI boards or only the 8 bit cards they were
>originally written for??

>It occurs to me that the DOS solution might not be valid for OS/2 or UNIX.
>Any comments in this regard? At the moment My work is done in DOS/WINDOWS,
>howvever, I am testing a small OS/2 partition and will consider UNIX and
>NT in the near future, but at the moment, my main concern is the DOS/WINDOWS
>world that I currently exist in.

>Consider EMail for your response and I will summarize and post.
>Thank you in advance for your help and advice.

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I now know the model no's for the Buslogic EISA SCSI adapterboards, that I
 didn't know when I posted the above, they are:

	742A (5Meg max.)
	747S (10Meg max.) (I'm more interested in the faster of the two).

Furthermore it has come to my attention that Micropolis has a SCSI II FAST
3 1/2" half high drive model # 2112 and Seagate has a similar drive model
# ST11200N.  Both are apparently 5400 rpm drives (fast) that are about one Gig
when formatted.  The Toshiba is slightly slower at 4400 rpm. The Fujitsu is
full hight 5 1/4" drive and standard 3600 rpm. All have a five year warranty ;-)

If you have any comments in a similar vain to my original posting with respect  to these additional options I would appreciate hearing them.

Thanks for the help.


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