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Am I stuck with a "spare" GB!?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Betz)
Tue Oct 10 22:31:43 1995
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 14:20:04 -0500
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: alb0@gte.com (Andrew Betz)
Greetings,
I am trying to get a Seagate ST-410800N 9GB SCSI harddrive hooked
up to an old HP Vectra 486-20. I want to NFS format and export the
Seagate drive. So far, so good. It turns out that the HP Vectra has
a EISA/ISA bus, so I need to find a SCSI controller that is SCSI-II FAST
and ISA. The only ones that show up as Linux supported are
an Adaptec 1542-CP and a Buslogic 747S. The rub is that both of
these cards are apparently maxed out at 8GB. Am I stuck with
a wasted GB!?! Even worse, these cards are both in the $225 range.
This seems overpriced given the cost of PCI boards (am I paranoid,
or are they out to get my money!?!).
Alternatively, can someone suggest a SCSI-II FAST (this is apparently
needed by the harddrive) ISA controller?
Drew
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