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From: alexis@panix.uucp (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: SCSI DMA boards for MacIIcx?
Keywords: SCSI, DMA, boards, MacII, cx
Message-ID: <1990Dec2.013048.11975@panix.uucp>
Date: 2 Dec 90 01:30:48 GMT
References: <1055@public.BTR.COM> <1990Nov26.024212.17191@ariel.unm.edu>
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einhorn@triton.unm.edu (E Drew Einhorn ADV.SCI.Inc) writes:
>December issue of MacWorld p. 258 has a full page ad for MicroNet's NuPort
>which compares it to DayStar's PowerCard and Golden Triangle's ProntoCard.
>
>Will probably put off buying the SCSI card for my ci till I can afford to
>buy at least a 300 MByte drive to go with it.  
>
>The NuPort is a SCSI-2 controller does anybody know if it will be compatible
>with plain old SCSI devices.  

There is much confusion over what makes a SCSI-2 drive. I can't say that I
know, either- every manufacturer makes different claims. Some say, for example,
that the new cable header must be used for a drive to be SCSI-2. I don't know
if that's true, but I have seen other drives called "SCSI-2" which use the
old style plugs...

In the end it doesn't matter. For now MicroNet will only sell the board as
part of a disk subsystem. I can't say that I blame them- it prevents them from
getting blamed for other people's problems- although I might wish it were
possible to buy them separately...

So for now, you can only get them with Wrens, because that's what they get
sold with. And in that configuration, they are indeed very very fast.

As for A/UX, the drivers are still not available.

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Alexis Rosen
Owner/Sysadmin, PANIX Public Access Unix, NY
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