From: Drew Eckhardt (drew@hamlet.cs.colorado.edu)
Date: 02/18/93


From: drew@hamlet.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: Anyone using a SCSI HD attached to a sound card?
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1993 22:25:42 GMT

In article <C2L0xp.2BK@research.canon.oz.au> stevet@research.canon.oz.au (Stephen Tyler) writes:
>
>Is anyone using a SCSI hard disk attached to the SCSI port of a sound card such as SoundBlaster or PAS-16? Do the linux drivers support this?

The Linux drivers don't support this.

>How does the speed compare to a "normal" SCSI interface?
>
>I already have two IDE hard disks, and I am wanting to add more disks. As I am also wanting to buy a PAS-16 sound card and a CDROM, I thought I could add an external SCSI HD to the PAS-16.

>What about the new Syquest 88Mb removable HD (that can write the 44Mb cartridges)? Is it supported in this way? I like the look of this as I can also use it with my Mac and MS-DOS on different cartridges (though not at the same time :^) ).

Removeable SCSI disks are supported under Linux, provided you run them
off of a supported SCSI adapter (Adaptec 154x, 174x and clones, Future
Domain TMC-950 based boards and 16xx's, Seagate, Western Digital 7000,
and Ultrastor 14f).

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