Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!caen!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpsgwp!plim From: plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: SCSI confusions, help please! Message-ID: <3370026@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com> Date: 22 May 91 02:06:05 GMT References: Organization: HP Singapore IC Design Ctr Lines: 42 / phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) / 1:17 am May 22, 1991 / writes: > Interesting that a guy from Always corp responds to this thread. > I would seriously consider one of their products if I were ever > brave enough to try SCSI on a PC. But I'm more of an ESDI/IDE kind > of guy... > You might want to try if you run out of disk space. I have the Always IN-2000 SCSI adapter in my system. It plays together with my existing ESDI drive (have also tried and verified that it plays with IDE drive). Togather with a SyQuest device driver, it allows me to have 3 hard drives on line at the same time (ESDI, SCSI and SyQuest). I have also attached an Archive Viper tape drive to the SCSI host adapter. The IN-2000 isn't a performance screamer (about 1MByte per sec transfer rate); but the manual specifically said that it does not use DMA and avoided a lot of incompatibility. I still haven't figure out why that is so, but the IN-2000 seems very compatible (I also have Sound Blaster) to me. Ran with Windows 3.0 enhanced mode straight without the need to set VirtualHDIrq=false (or something similar). I am very satisfied with this adapter and Rick Wagner has been very helpful when I needed help on getting new SyQuest device driver and SCSI BIOS ROM upgrade. I heard that Always had came out with an EISA SCSI adapter which can deliver about 3 - 4 MByte per sec. Anyone has any more info ? ** Obviously I am not affiliated with Always in any ways except as a very satisfied customer. Regards, ___o``\________________________________________________ ___ __ _ _ Peter Lim. V````\ @ @ . .. ... .- -> 76 MIPS at under US$20K !! --- -- - - /.------------------------------------------------ === == = = >--_// . .. ... .- -> 57 MIPS at under US$12K !! `' . If you guessed SUN, IBM or DEC, you are wrong ! E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, Singapore 0410. #include