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Re: Am I stuck with a "spare" GB!?!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bas Laarhoven)
Fri Oct 13 10:59:24 1995
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 95 07:33:28 +0100
From: bas@vimec.nl (Bas Laarhoven)
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Cc: alb0@gte.com, drew@poohsticks.org
>
> In message <199510101913.PAA22141@ns.gte.com>, alb0@gte.com writes:
> >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.
>
> 1. If it's EISA/ISA, you can use an EISA board.
>
> 2. If you're going to go ISA, there's no reason to go FAST SCSI-II, since
> you're not going to move > 5M/sec across the ISA bus.
The latter will probably be true for the HP Vectra but doesn't stand for some
modern systems: My Intel Premiere II (a.k. Plato) will run reliable with
an Adaptec 1542CF at 10 Mb/s sync transfer speed !
Bas.
