Subj : Re: WINDOWS XP
To   : DAVID R. NORTON
From : JAY EMRIE
Date : Fri Jul 20 2001 02:27 pm

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DRN>> Very interesting article in August PC Magazine (pg 83) about
DRN>> SCSI. Looks like it will still have a very useful life for
DRN>> some time to come.

DRN>Didn't see it and can't find it on their website.  My opinion of SCSI 
(FWIW)
DRN>is that it's great but too costly and until the price of decent cards comes
DRN>down more and SCSI devices cost the same as ATAPI it'll never get the
DRN>respect it deserves...

There are VERY good SCSI cards put out by TEKRAM - they are
equal to Adaptec in every area I have tried. The DC315 (no
boot bios) only costs $37.00 at my supplier. There is a
better card that allows booting SCSI for something under
$100.00 - I used it for a long time. I no longer have SCSI
hard drives - with the present day price, speed and capacity
of IDE why bother. However, I do have a internal SCSI Yamaha
16x10x40x CDRW, SCSI Jaz and external SCSI flat bed scanner,
SCSI slide scanner, and SCSI ZIP. The beauty of SCSI is no
problems with IRQs, DMAs and such.

I highly recommend the Tekram SCSI cards - they have ALL
flavors of them.

Jay


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