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From: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: SCSI controllers - a summary
Message-ID: <3193@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 27 May 91 20:38:40 GMT
Reply-To: frisk@rhi.hi.is (Fridrik Skulason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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A few days ago I posted a note asking about a controller for the 700Meg
SCSI disk I'm getting.

The responce was quite good, but I did not expect it to be as one-sided
as it turned out.  Practically everybody recommended the Adaptec controllers.

Here are some of the comments:

       I also use such Siemens drives, and the only controller that
       doesn't make any trouble is the Adaptec !
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       I would stay away from Future Domain.  At a company where I used to
       work we had so much trouble with their drivers screwing up the FAT's
       and other things we wanted to write our own.  There is good support
       for Adaptec for other OS's other than DOS also (Unix, OS/2 1.1, etc.)
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       On the other hand, I work with the Adaptec 154x-series controller all
       the time in everything from 16-MHz 386sx's to 25-MHz 486/EISA boxes,
       all under SCO Unix.  I *love* them.  Fast, reliable, extremely well 
       supported, and inexpensive.  They've always been completely painless.
       The other controller that we have used extensively is the Western
       Digital WD7000FAAST.  Not as fast and not as well supported.
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       I do happen to have a WD 7000FAST SCSI board which I'd recommend you
       stay away from  unless you're interested in losing 40-60K of
       RAM to load their drivers :-(   

The rest of the comments went pretty much the same way - thanks to everybody
who responded to my question.

It should go without saying, that I ordered an Adaptec controller today. :-)

-frisk

Fridrik Skulason                 Technical Editor of the Virus Bulletin (UK)  
(author of F-PROT)               E-Mail: frisk@rhi.hi.is    Fax: 354-1-28801