From: ralf@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Ralf Schlatterbeck)
Subject: ISC + ESDI + SCSI possible! (Summary)
Reply-To: ralf@vmars.tuwien.ac.at
Organization: Technical University of Vienna
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 09:03:14 GMT
X-Cuse: we apologise for the inconvenience

That's all I got 'til now, I'm going to buy a 1GB DEC SCSI drive and the Adaptec
1542B Controller today.  Hope it helps.
Ralf

Forwarded messages:
> From richk@grebyn.com Mon Sep  7 23:41:02 1992
> From: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
> Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
> 
> In article <1992Sep7.083828.15502@email.tuwien.ac.at> you write:
[ original article deleted]
> 
> You don't say what version of Interactive Unix you're running, but the
> place I work ran just that configuration (a 300M ESDI drive on a WD
> 1007 controller, and a Micropolis 1.3G SCSI drive on an Adaptec 1542A
> controller) without any drama.  The configuration is straightforward;
> use "kconfig" to configure HPDD with the controllers you mention.  If
> you've got ISC 3.0, then you'll be telling HPDD configuration your
> drive configuration too, but with 2.2 it didn't ask.  Then use sysadm
> diskmgmt addharddisk to set up the new drive.
> 
> Oh, and get the Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller.  They don't make the
> 1542A anymore, and the 1522 is slower (but cheaper), and not supported
> by ISC 2.2 (1522 support was added in 3.0).  You could get the Adaptec
> 1540B, which is just the same as the 1542B but it doesn't have the
> floppy controller, but later on you might find the floppy controller
> useful if you end up pulling out the ESDI controller later (like we
> did).
> -- 
> Richard Krehbiel                                 richk@grebyn.com
> OS/2 2.0 will do for me until AmigaDOS for the 386 comes along...
> 
> From daemon@pta.pyramid.com.au Tue Sep  8 02:02:15 1992
> From: keith@garman (Keith Brinck)
> 
[ original article deleted]
> 
> I have just done exactly this: added a 1Gb Wren VII SCSI disk to my existing
> 330Mb ESDI setup under ISC 3.0.  I used the Adaptec 1542B and had no problems
> at all.  I also added an Archive 150Mb SCSI tape drive.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> 
> From cncvie!rs@tuvie.can.ac.at Tue Sep  8 09:07:30 1992
> From: rs@cncvie.at (Rainer Spritzendorfer)
> Organization: CNC Cybernetic GmbH
> 
> Ich habe bei mir folgende Konfiguration:
> 
> No-Name 486/25 ISA 16Mb
> WD1007V-SE2 (ESDI) mit 350Mb Micropolis als primary controller
> Adaptec 1542B mit 400Mb Quantum als secondary controller
> 
> ISC V3.2 3.0
> 
> -> absolut kein Problem, kann ich sehr empfehlen.
> 
> Gruesse
> Rainer
> -- 
> Rainer Spritzendorfer               rs@cncvie.at (or) ...!uunet!tuvie!cncvie!rs
> CNC-Cybernetic GmbH
> A-1070 Vienna, Austria
> 
> From vtl@tik.vtt.fi Tue Sep  8 16:57:05 1992
> From: Tapio Luukkanen <vtl@tik.vtt.fi>
> 
> It is possible, yes.
> 
> I have 340 Mb ESDI (boot) + 220 Mb SCSI (WD 7000-FASST card).
> I am using WD's own SCSI-driver, not the ISC driver, though.
> 
> The foremost thing is to change the scsi-card's default
> interrupt number to something other than what the ESDI card uses.
> 
> Tapio
> 
> From technix!jfw@kksys.kksys.mn.org Wed Sep  9 06:20:38 1992
> From: jfw@technix.technix.mn.org (Jerry Wallace)
> Organization: Private System - Saint Paul, MN
> 
> You write:
[ original article deleted]
> 
> You'll have to boot from the ESDI drive.  Otherwise it should work well.
> -- 
> Jerry Wallace                    TechNIX, Inc.
> Electronic: jfw@technix.mn.org   103 Healy Building
>   Acoustic: Installing           2301 Como Avenue
>  Ballistic: Hah!                 Saint Paul, MN  55108
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