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From: larry@macom1.UUCP (Larry Taborek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ESDI or SCSI or RLL?
Message-ID: <5007@macom1.UUCP>
Date: 27 Mar 90 13:14:58 GMT
References: <90081.181305MHS108@psuvm.psu.edu>
Organization: CENTEL Federal Systems, Reston, VA. 22091-1506
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From article <90081.181305MHS108@psuvm.psu.edu>, by MHS108@psuvm.psu.edu (Mark Solsman):
> I am buying a new 386-25. Which disk sub-system should it have?
> 
>  1 - EDSI  2 - SCSI  3 - RLL
> 
> 
>   ...why do you say so?

I bought and put together my 386 machine.  I went with SCSI (2),
because the transfer rate was just as good as ESDI, and SCSI will
let me plug up to 7 devices into the SCSI bus.  Those devices can
be hard disks, floppy disks, worm or cdrom drives, quick tape
systems, helical tape drives,...

Right now I have a Mylex 386/25Mz Cache motherboard with 4MB of
dram, and a Adaptec AHA1642 controller hooked up to 2 floppy disk
drives and a Wren III 155MB SCSI drive.  The throughput is just
unbelievable!  (ie fast).

Hope this helps...

Larry
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