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Hello,
I figured it would play under Win95. I am going to run with Win31 a
while longer on the notebook.
Although Adaptec seems to be slow out of the gate at times (It took
awhile for a VL-bus card to appear), they seems to be well supported.
My first card was a 1542B (ISA Bus). It was amazed that I could go to
their BBS (now their web site as well) and actually get eprom images
to upgrade the 1542B (I have a prom burner). They seemed to have alot
of good information available as well as upgrades to their drivers.
They also make the effort to include basic tutorial software to make
setting up a scsi system as painless as possible.
I am also reminded of those pasta sauce commericals. I am sure there
are some devices that are not supported, but I am glad when I bring
home a fleamarket special SCSI device and find that the support is "in
there".
And here I thought that I was alone in setting up scsi in my notebook!
I used SCSI for years and think it is a great interface standard.
Unfortunely the bandwagon is IDE, but I see some advantage to using
SCSI because you can use "real" tape backup systems and have a CD-Rom
on a notebook that does not have an internal one. It is going to be
interesting as we get bigger notebook disk capacities because of the
backup situation. I would not be suprised if someone offered a
notebook that had a writable CD-Rom or a tape drive that you put in
place of the floppy (possibly a 4mm DAT drive?). I know there are
parallel port tape drives now, but backing up gigabytes would be slow.
73 Eric ecottrell@doble.com