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From: erik@westworld.esd.sgi.com (Erik Fortune)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ESDI disk controllers
Keywords: installation,Adaptec,help
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Date: 23 Jul 90 21:06:30 GMT
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In article <10183@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>, davidsen@antarctica.crd.GE.COM
(william E Davidsen) writes:
>|> 2.  What are the advantages or disavantages of the following controllers?
>|> 
>|>                     Western Digital
>|> WD1007A-WA2
>|> WD1007V-SE2
>
>  This has been a pretty good controller for us, but it is a tad slow.
>It may not run 1:1 with all disks, it's 10mbit rather than 15, etc. One
>controller we have liked is the CompuAdd. We have found that the cache
>makes less diference with unix, but really helps performance with DOS.
>Ignoring the cache it has been a nice reliable controller, and we have
>used it with a number of drives here.

The SE2 is the new version of the WA2 and is spec'ed at 15mbit, and 
runs 1:1 (or claims to) with my Wren.    Speedy enough to keep me happy.   
Haven't used the WA2 or the CompuAdd, though so I can't compare them.
I'm happy with my SE2, though.

-- Erik
   (erik@sgi.com)