Adaptec 1542CF with Micropolis 3243AV 4.3Gb Drive

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From: boggart**
Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 00:00

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I have an Adaptec 1542CF running a Micropolis 3243AV drive on my
machine (a 486) and was wanting to know if, when I upgrade to a ninja
Pentium, this will drag the system down.  The Adaptec is only ISA and
as it, and the drive, are only Fast SCSI-II, I am concerned that I
would be doing an injustice to a 200MMX system with 64Mb RAM.

Does anyone have any comments?

Also, if I changed the Adaptec to something newer, such as the 2940U
or 2940AU, and then added a SCSI-III drive to my setup would it still
work?  I remember reading somewhere that if I have a Fast SCSI-II and
SCSI-III ultra wide drive attached, the SCSI-III one will only perform
as a SCSI-II because it uses the lowest common denominator.

I would be grateful for any assistance as I don't want to be stuck
with hideous disk performance, but at the same time I don't want to
buy a SCSI-III disk if it won't make a difference!

Thanks in advance,

boggart@hairyolaf.force9.net

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From: boggart**@hairyolaf.force9.net
Subject: Adaptec 1542CF with Micropolis 3243AV 4.3Gb Drive
Date: 1997/03/23
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