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From: blair@pyro.ei.dupont.com (Grant Bair)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: PC SCSI interface
Keywords: PC, SCSI, MSDOS
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.152621.26252@pyro.ei.dupont.com>
Date: 27 Sep 90 15:26:21 GMT
References: <1990Sep20.175400.18626@maths.tcd.ie> <1990Sep26.181838.10272@clmqt.marquette.Mi.US>
Organization: DuPont Electronic Imaging
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>tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy) writes:
>
>>What board would you advise for using a SCSI drive
>>(a) on a PC/XT, (b) on an AT?
>

I can't comment upon (a), but as regards (b) we use the Western Digital WD7000
boards for all SCSI I/O. This is not only to regular SCSI  hard drives, but
also to Crosfield Studio systems, optical disks and SCSI printers. We've had no
problems in general. The only exceptions we've noted are:

1) If you have a NEC 386/25MHz it's a no-go (this NEC is not considered a true
   AT-clone)

2) If you want to use VM/386 or a similar product in conjunction with more than
   one (virtual or physical) drive.

Grant.


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