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Re: PCMCIA SCSI Cards
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Werner Kliewer)
Fri Jun 11 13:06:18 1999
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:00:36 CDT
To: Michael Meissner <meissner@cygnus.com>
Cc: linux-scsi list <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19990610184058.A28559@tiktok.cygnus.com>
From: Werner Kliewer <Werner_Kliewer@MPIC.mb.ca>
Reply-To: Werner_Kliewer@MPIC.mb.ca
> 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>
> Subject: Re: PCMCIA SCSI Cards
>
> 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).
>
Thanks. I see that the 1420 is no longer current. I wonder if the 1460 is as easy
to use? I don't think I can use the 1480, but I should try to find out.
Werner Kliewer
Manitoba Public Insurance
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