Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: SCO Unix SysV 3.2 Summary: Get the right controller Message-ID: <601@crdos1.crd.ge.COM> Date: 28 Sep 89 15:52:51 GMT References: <3428@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) Organization: GE Corp R&D Center Lines: 22 In article <3428@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG>, jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) writes: | I know that you need Xenix 386GT to get SCSI support | and that 386GT also supports ESDI, but will 386AT | also support ESDI or do you need the GT version to | get any non-standard interface support? There are several controllers for ESDI which look just like AT flavor controllers and allow you to run standard AT Xenix/386. The Western Digital is one, I *think* the number is 1007. Dell uses one in their 310/325 series (on which I type this). If money is a problem they also make the WD1006VSR2 RLL controller. This has hardware track buffering and gives about the same performance as the ESDI models, with cheaper hardware. If you need a lot of disk ESDI is probably your best best. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) "The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called 'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see that the world is flat!" - anon