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On Tue, 23 Sep 1997 01:16:40 -0500, Dennis Pantazis wrote: >The Adaptec MiniSCSI and MiniSCSI Plus are the same devices from Trantor. > They are the T348, which is the Plus and most widely available. > >It is not the greatest SCSI performer though, it is dependant on the >parallel port settings. Any drives that you mount are recognized as >removable media, so you can not run things like fdisk on those drives. > >Also, if you connect to a CDROM only you must be carefull on how you >configure the drive and to terminate properly. The default SCSI ID for the >device is 7, and has no jumpers or options. Isn't that the default for all SCSI controllers? > >It is possible to use the deveice in DOS mode too, which is nice to install >OS's fromthe CDROM. All you have to do is make sure that the ASAPI and >MSCDEX are on the boot disk. > >I use it under Solaris as the device which to connect to an external SCSI >case. > >All in all I think it is worthwhile device, and a much better choice than a >PCMCIA SCSI card, granted keep in mind that throughput is slower. > Although you need PCMCIA drivers, PCMCIA is still FASTER, and that can make a huge performance difference. Paul