From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: SLS is awesome and getting larger Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:51:24 GMT
In article <cebB_7a00WCX0E5HxD@andrew.cmu.edu> "Brian E. Gallew" <geek+@CMU.EDU> writes:
>>Actually, Linux also supports several other SCSI controllers, the
>>ST01/2 (Seagate) being among them, and those are s'posed to be dirt
>>cheap.
>
>As the proud owner of an ST01, my advice is:
>Spend the extra bucks to get a real controller!
>
>I tried to plug a Wang SCSI tape drive into it last night, but the
>ST01 only talks to hard drives (and probably Seagate ones at that).
Wrong. The Seagate talks to anything you have a driver for -
note that there is no publically available tape driver for
Linux. There is a Seagate tape driver for DOS though, you
might check the FTP sites for it.
>Also, the nicer cards give a lot better performance.
Agreed.
>
>Don't get me wrong, the ST01 is completely function (for what it
>does), but I think that in the long run you will be disappointed.
Of course, if cost is the only criteria, $20 is a drop in the
bucket compared to an Adaptec.
-- Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows, IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments. Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.