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Message-ID: <1990Nov21.124320@earthsea.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: gyugyi@earthsea.stanford.edu (Paul Gyugyi)
Organization: Stanford University
Subject: Re: SCSI drives with WIN3
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I have a computer with an 8 bit bus, and I i've used both the 
segate SCSI controller and the future domain controller, and I
can't say I'd recommend either.  The segate SCSI works fine if
you only have one other MFM/RLL hard disk.  Since I had two MFM
disks, I had to get the future domain controller (the only other
8 bit controller I know) which has a driver that lets the SCSI
disks run as drive e:.  The problem is that the driver installs
the SCSI disks as block devices, rather than installing the disks
on the int13 chain.  Since smartdrv and hyperdsk only cache int13
devices, my SCSI disk just doesn't get cached, which is really bad
if you've got an 8 bit bus (I've got an Intel Inboard386/PC card).
Overall, it looks like the Adaptec controller is going to be a standard.
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Paul Gyugyi
gyugyi@earthsea.stanford.edu