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From: markj@infmx.UUCP (Mark Jeske)
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Subject: Re: Anyone used D.P.T.'s Smart Connex SCSI controller ?
Message-ID: <5070@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 90 03:23:20 GMT
References: <1990Aug25.171947.13601@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: markj@infmx.UUCP (Mark Jeske(Chicago Consultan)t)
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In article <1990Aug25.171947.13601@watdragon.waterloo.edu> grwalter@watfun.uwaterloo.ca (Fred Walter) writes:
>I read in an add in Byte that D.P.T.'s Smart Connex SCSI controller looks
>like just a 'normal' controller (no special drivers needed). Has anyone
>used this beasty ? What do you think of it ? What sort of transfer rates do
>you get ? Where can it be bought ? (I only managed to find one place in the
>Sept. 90 Computer Shopper that sold it ... for $307 US).

I've been using it for 2 days now, with a micropolis 1375 drive and a
seagate 296n.  It works great so far!  I've got a dos partition on each
drive, as well as sco xenix 2.3.2AT loaded on the micropolis.  The xenix
2.3.2AT version does not support scsi, so there claim of looking like a
standard mfm drive without software drivers is true.  With a seagate
8 bit scsi controller I would get about a 300K data transfer using
coretest.  With the dtp I'm getting about 5600K.  Yes that's right, 5600K!

I purchased mine from a local distributor for $250, but since it solves the
scsi compatability problems, I would easily pay $300.

Mark Jeske
Informix Software
markj@infmx.com
708-699-5850