Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ssingh
From: ssingh@watserv1.waterloo.edu (The Sanj-Machine aka Ice)
Subject: Re: ST02 - doesn't work with ProDrive Quantum S80 - Why ?
Message-ID: <1991Jan27.042046.10471@watserv1.waterloo.edu>
Keywords: -
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <440@usun01.UUCP> <4f429ab7.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> <1991Jan18.003222.15824@smsc.sony.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 91 04:20:46 GMT
Lines: 24

In article <1991Jan18.003222.15824@smsc.sony.com> tin@smsc.sony.com (Tin "Man" Le) writes:
>
>  I have personally used (am using) several different non-Seagate SCSI
>  drive with an ST02.
>

Chances are, you are not getting the performance you could be getting.
To paraphrase from comments last year on the ST-02. It is "an obsolete
Future Domain design that Seagate bought the rights to, and now bundle
with their systems." "It is dirt cheap." It is an 8-bit controller with
NO support from Unix vendors. It is okay if you intend to only run DOS/Windows.

But if you have high performance SCSI drives, look elsewhere. Only a 
multi-tasking system can take advantage of multi-threaded I/O that SCSI
is capable of providing anyway. And hence you need a host adapter that
is supported by the Unix people.



-- 
"No one had the guts... until now!"  
$anjay $ingh     Fire & "Ice"     ssingh@watserv1.[u]waterloo.{edu|cdn}/[ca]
ROBOTRON Hi-Score: 20 Million Points | A new level of (in)human throughput...
"The human race is inefficient and therefore must be destroyed."-Eugene Jarvis