On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 12:29:46PM -0800, Rasana Atreya wrote:
> Here are my questions:
>
> - If I buy say an Ultra CDROM drive, a SCSI-2 Zip drive, and an Ultra hard disk
> is the Tekram a good choice?
Yes. Use the ncr53c8xx driver with Linux. There's also an NT driver, of
course ...
> Since the Tekram does not have an external 50-pin connector, would I be
> able to use the ZIP drive with a 168-pin to 50-pin adapter?
^
... 100 too much ...
Yes. Note that these adapters are not cheap, however.
> - Is is acceptable to mix and match SCSI-2 and Ultra SCSI?
No problems. Just have devices with active termination at the end of your
SCSI chain, otherwise you might get problems due to reflections.
> - Does the floppy drive have to be SCSI?
No. On PCs, floppy has its own (mostly onboard) controller.
> - Can internal devices be daisey-chained?
My english is not good enough to know what you mean by daisy-chained.
If it means that yopur chain is anything else than linear, then: NO.
You are even not allowed to use every of the three connectors of the DC390F.
My experience with Tekram SCSI adapters is fine. Drivers are OK, the BIOS is
pretty well and you can talk to the Tech support by email and it gets
answered. Their are committed to linux. Note that the driver I maintain, the
tmscsim (DC390/AM53C974) driver was originally written by a Teram engineer.
[Maybe this makes me a little bit biased.]
I don't know about the other adapters, you suggested, though.
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Kurt Garloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Dortmund, FRG)
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There is something frustrating about the quality and speed of Linux
development. I.e. the quality is too high and the speed is too high, in
other words, I can implement this XXXX feature, but I bet someone else
has already done it and is just about to release his patch to Linus soon...
[From a posting of Tigran Aivazian to linux-kernel, XXXX = disk stat]
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