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From: add@sciences.tmc.edu (James D. Murray)
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Subject: Re: Are "IBM" PCs Ready for SCSI?
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Date: 17 Jul 90 03:51:51 GMT
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    I use a Future Domain TMC-885 SCSI Host Adapter with a
Maxtor LXT-200S SCSI drive and I love it!  The system
really complements my 386-25MHz machine.  Now if I could
only find a good 60mb internal SCSI tape backup.
 
    BTW, the I am dissatisfied with Future Domain itself.  I
specifically bought the TMC-885 because its on-board floppy
disk controller will support up to four floppies, any
combination.  The catch is that your floppies 3 and 4 need a
special driver in CONFIG.SYS to work.  I have been waiting for
that driver to be written since November 1989.  Since March
they've bee been telling me "the driver will be released next
month.  It's still in Q.C."  It takes 15 minutes to get through
to the tech. support people only to be given yet another bull
story to put me off for another month.  
    
    So here I sit with a system with four floppy drivers--only
two of which work.
 
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James D. Murray, Ethnounixologist	"Riker!  Stop that smirking!"
Anaheim, California, U.S.A.                    -- J-L. Picard

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