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Re: PCMCIA SCSI Cards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Meissner)
Thu Jun 10 19:17:16 1999
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:40:58 -0400
From: Michael Meissner <meissner@cygnus.com>
To: Werner Kliewer <Werner_Kliewer@MPIC.mb.ca>
Cc: linux-scsi list <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <VA.000001ab.04763dda@ep708-w073.mpic.mb.ca.>; from Werner Kliewer on Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 03:48:29PM -0500
On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 03:48:29PM -0500, Werner Kliewer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am about to order an Iomega Jaz drive, which will be used on a number
> of computers, including some IBM 380ED laptops. In order to get enough
> performance to make having 2gb platters worthwhile, I would like to get
> a PCMCIA SCSI card to plug it into. I know that Iomega sells the Jaz
> PCMCIA card, and there are others on the market.
>
> What is the PCMCIA card that will likely give me the least trouble in
> an IBM ThinkPad, work in both Win9x and obviously Linux, and run the
> Jaz drive? If it is a low end brand name card (like an Adaptec), that
> would not hurt either as our suppliers sometimes have a limited range
> of brands to offer.
With 2.2.x kernels (not sure if I ever used a 2.0.x kernel with the adapter),
I've used an Adaptec 1460 with success. It comes with cables for a db50 and a
centronix connector (two cables). You can send away for a 25 pin scsi
connector (mine had a card to get the cable free n months after purchase,
needless to say n+m months after I purchased the card, I bought a Umax 1220S
scanner with a 25 pin interface). On my Toshiba Tecra 8000, I tried it
recently, and was able to dump stuff to a DAT drive at about 75 meg/minute (the
workstation can reach 90-100 meg/minute, but hey it has PCI scsi controllers
and fast scsi disks).
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