Ben,
Ben Hood wrote:
> And to answer Chad Fernandez, its an Osbourne computer, in a
> standard AT case. (ie looks like it would take a standard
> motherboard) The keyboard is AT and the mouse is serial (as
> opposed to PS/2 style connectors)
Isn't Osbourne an Australian clone maker, or am I mixing things up?
> The SCSI card is Adaptec AHA 1540C/1542C BIOS v1.01. There is
> also an IDE/IO card included. Setting the HDDs in cmos to Not
> Installed just by-passes this.
Oh, that should be a really good card. I have a few 1542B cards, that
have too early a bios to go over one gig. I think your C card will go
over 1 gig, up to 8.3... I think, not sure.
> The 1 gig drive was getting too noisy, so I found a 340MB SCSI
> drive that I had bought in a large box of HDDs. Previously I didn't
> know if this drive would work. I'm installing DR-DOS on it as I type.
Since the "new" drive is only 340mb, it must be fairly old. You will
probably get better performance if you got a newer drive, like maybe a
single gig, 3.5" drive. The full height drive, even thoughm it is 1
gig, is probably fairly old, too.
Was the full height drive noisy, like all older Seagates, or was it
noisy, like you expect it to fail?
> The BigFoot I saw was almost as big as a 5.25 drive, being 4GB.
> This new 1G drive is quite heavy, and very large, especially when
> up against a "normal" sized drive.
At one time 5.25" full height drives were normal :-)
> My plan was to put the old harddrives onto the IDE connector, and
> copy across. I got a hard drive failure (these drives had been failing
> in the 386 though) but then the SCSI couldn't load the BIOS so I
> guess one cannot peacefully mix IDE and SCSI?
IDE will take boot priority, which is a shame, in my opinion.
> I think I would prefer SCSI to IDE in my main machine, except for
> the cost!
>
> (I know of a guy with an all-SCSI system and SCSI CD burner; he
> can play games like Quake3 whilst burning [under linux of course]
> without upsetting anything. Try it with IDE, and you'll make plenty
> of coasters, or cause your game to chug)
I had all scsi on my 386DX, and have all SCSI on my 486. All of my HDs
are SCSI and my cd-rom. I haven't gotten a CD-RW yet, but it will be
SCSI when I do. On my Pentium system, I have an IDE cd-rom.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
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