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From: shiva@well.sf.ca.us (Kenneth Porter)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: The Best SCSI Card for a ISA/EISA/MCA Machine?
Keywords: ISA EISA MCA
Message-ID: <22629@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 14 Jan 91 20:40:13 GMT
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I'll be shopping for a new [34]86 machine at the next West
Coast Computer Fairre and I expect that I'll want a 300-600Mb
SCSI disk (possibly a Fuji M2263SA, which I have experience
with on my Sun 386i). What controller should I go for, and how
can  I ensure maximum documentation of it and the drive?  Ie.
what do I ask the vendor for?  Is the choice of CPU bus
(ISA/EISA/MCA) a consideration?  How do floppies fit into all
of this?
 
I get the impression from comments here that Adaptec is the
company to go with for controller, and that it sets the
standard for ISA bus SCSI implementations. I expect to add
other SCSI peripherals in the future, so I'd like to get
developer documentation as well as the
"how-to-plug-it-in-and-set-the-jumpers" kind.
 
Ken (shiva@well.sf.ca.us)