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On Tue, 16 Sep 1997 at 02:27 PM you, Mike Ford <michaelford@usa.net>, said: >I would like to have a SCSI port on our 365XD, but can get by I think >just networking to the various storage media. I noticed a newsgroup ad >though for some cheap PCMCIA SCSI cards (about $50, no I don't have the >ad, just dejanews for it) along with the last, one would hope, of the >Mediagenic portable CDROM drives (again about $50). I don't know about no name PCMCIA SCSI cards. I chose the Adaptec 1460 SlimSCSI because it supports almost all operation systems, including non mainstream ones like OS/2 and Linux. I'd say that if your card works with your OS of choice and you don't plan to run other OS's in teh future, go for it. >Just how bad is the generic PCMCIA SCSI card? Would it be fast enough to >support a 2x CDROM writer? I think it's not how good or how bad it is: either it supports your OS of choice or not. I would imagine CPU and RAM are more important parameters for your CDR drive than the SCSI adapter, which is unlikely to be the bottleneck. Dominique -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Dominique Pivard <domi@kenavo.fi> Helsinki, Finland -----------------------------------------------------------