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From: stevel@haddock.ima.isc.com (Steve Ludlum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: MFM and SCSI together ?
Message-ID: <16297@haddock.ima.isc.com>
Date: 27 Mar 90 13:58:25 GMT
References: <1977@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: stevel@haddock.ima.isc.com (Steve Ludlum)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302
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In article <1977@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
>What if you're using an OS that can only use the BIOS at power on to boot such
>as *nix?  Then you need a driver for each manufacturer's SCSI host adaptor to
>run under this vendor's operating system.  Obviously the vendor isn't going to
>provide it unless it is a commonly used piece of hardware.  The onboard
>controller BIOS can not be used for something such as Unix.  So what do you do
>then?  You have to go through what controllers are supported by the OS and
>prey the one you want has a driver either provided by the manufacturer of the
>controller or the vendor of the OS.  Anybody who needs SCSI such as hell isn't
>going to use DOS with it since it would be a waste.

Just put an Adaptec 1542 in your IBM 386/AT clone and run ISC 386/ix,
soon to be called UNIX. It also supports Future Domain though I have
never used it. UNIX does use the on board BIOS on the Adaptec for
booting, then it runs a custom UNIX own driver. Works like a charm and
I get over 300K bytes per second THROUGH the file system, over
500K/sec to the raw device. I don't know about other vendors support
of booting a SCSI out of the software box. Your milage may vary with
drive speed and first party DMA.

>Try using anything other than Novell's DCB board with NetWare 386, you will
>find that it will not work by longshot.  No drivers for any other board other
>than the DCB.  This is from Novell, this is fact since we did it.

I have never tried running Novel, I think I saw a Novell package once,
but I would never try to run it. Ugh DOS.

>iverson@xstor.UUCP (Tim Iverson) writes:
> "Just the facts"

Please only fact not possibly wrong guesses.

These opinions are mine and the experience is mine. ISC only
unknowingly supplied an employee, me, the software.
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Steve Ludlum  stevel@ima.isc.com  Interactive Systems  617-252-5895