Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!math.fu-berlin.de!tmpmbx!zelator!john From: john@zelator.uucp (Andreas Bathe) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: SCSI & Windows Message-ID: Date: 8 Apr 91 01:34:38 GMT References: <1991Apr6.215725.18110@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Organization: Puplic-Access-Xenix Lines: 44 In <1991Apr6.215725.18110@watdragon.waterloo.edu> lucjacobs@lion.uwaterloo.ca (Lester Jacobs) writes: >I will soon be upgrading my computer to a 486 with a 300mb SCSI drive. I >know that there are problems with windows and scsi drives. Could I have >input from anyone who has had experience with the windows/SCSI combination? Yeah, I do! But I've got only a 386SX-18MHz with 8MBytes. >I need advice concerning >a) best scsi adapter to buy I bought the adaptec SCSI-controller AHA-1542B, the transfer-rate is nearly about 1 meg per second, I've never got any problems with it. >b) best scsi drive (must be approximately 300mb) and the QUANTUM ProDrive 210S, 210 MB formatted, 15 ms, 64 kB disk-cache, 3.5", very quiet! I've heard that the company is just surrender a drive with over 400 MB, but until today I've not seen it. The QUANTUMs aren't expensive any more. >c) info on changes to be made to windows *.ini files in order to get the > combination to work. NO changes in windows. ini files and NO input in the hard-disk setup! 'cause it's SCSI, unfortunately only SCSI-1 but it RUNS very good. [stuff deleted] That's all Andreas alias john -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Andreas J. Bathe | EMAIL: john@zelator.uucp | | Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz 15 | PHONE: 0049-30-8512407 | | W-1000 Berlin 41 | FAX: 0049-30-3249685 | | Germany | (Please address to Andreas!) | ------------------------------------------------------------------------