#What Should I Buy??
20-May-93 00:02:36
Sb: #48713-#What Should I Buy??
Fm: Samuel Feldman 70403,432
To: Jack L. Chalker 72205,613
Jack,
Great informative message! Thanks. I'm sure it will evoke some questions, and
here's some about drivers:
1. When you have an SCSI board with ASPI support, you have an ASPI manager
piece of software that sits in the first megabyte, right? Does CorelSCSI
include that, and what boards does it support?
2. Does the board use ASPI to access a hard disk as well, or is there something
in ROM? If ROM, does that take up memory space?
3. If you hook up a bunch of different types of devices to the same SCSI board,
do you have to have additional drivers for each type?
And about EISA SCSI-2 for hard disk:
4. Are you using a caching controller? If you use a caching controller, does
it make sense to have a software cache like SmartDrv, or can you get rid of it?
And would the hardware cache support ALL the devices hooked up to the board
(CD-ROM, removable, floptical, etc.)?
— Samuel