Subj : SCSI CD-RW
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Peter Knapper
Date : Sun Mar 20 2005 07:40 pm

Hi Sean,

 SD> I was wondering if anyone had a spare SCSI (PCI) 
 SD> adapter and cable (with terminator) that they weren't 
 SD> using that I could purchase from them?  

I have a couple of Adaptec 1542's around here somewhere but I am picking you 
are not interested in them -
  1. ISA bus only.
  2. The 16MB Ram limit for DMA and double buffering issue.

Besides, shipping from this end of the world would not be cheap.....;-(

 SD> I'm not too sure about doing SCSI stuff under OS/2, 
 SD> but I know it works.

Yep, it sure does... I have been using SCSI as my principle Drive environment 
under OS/2 since the days V2.0 was in beta......;-) I would have used it under 
V1.3 if the right driver was available, but it wasn't......;-) Its still my 
prefered HD environment, yes I have had the odd drive fai, but never at the 
rate IDE drives have turned up their toes. The very first SCSI drive that I 
bought was a 3.5" Fujitsu 2614SA, 180MB and that drive still runs today (but 
not in use obviously). Currently this machine has both IDE (1 x 80GB and 1 x 
CDROM) and SCSI (1 x 8GB + +1 x 4GB and 1 x CD-Writer). The IDE drive is the 
"backup" and general storage drive, the SCSI is the boot and all my work areas. 
I prefer using SCSI as it really does perform much better than IDE when there 
is more than 1 physical drive being accessed.

Cheers...............pk.



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