Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!prism!dali.gatech.edu!ken From: ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: Which controller for 386 box: Adaptec 1542B or WD7000-FASST2? Message-ID: <24283@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 13 Mar 91 22:40:49 GMT References: Sender: news@prism.gatech.EDU Reply-To: ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) Distribution: comp.periphs.scsi Organization: The House Of Fun Lines: 19 In article hpasanen@cs.hut.fi (Harri Pasanen) writes: > >I'm unfamiliar with the latter controller. How does it compare performance / >compatibility wise with Adaptec 1542B? What are their relative costs? > >Any recommondations? > Get the Adaptec. Subjectively, I find it to be faster than the WD board under SCO Unix, and the Adaptec is much better supported. The only reason I have any WD7000's is that I have some older 386 ISA bus machines (Zenith) that don't like the way that the 1542's do DMA (it's a Zenith problem, not an adaptec problem). -- ken seefried iii ken@dali.cc.gatech.edu "If 'ya can't be with the one you love, honey, love the one you're with..."