Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!decwrl!decwrl!olivea!charnel!rat!usc!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.com!mksol!mccall From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (Fred McCall) Subject: Re: Questions about Apdatec 1442c Message-ID: <1994Feb28.210415.16762@mksol.dseg.ti.com> Organization: Texas Instruments Inc X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] References: Date: Mon, 28 Feb 1994 21:04:15 GMT Lines: 23 Roger Leung (RFHLEUNG@MECHANICAL.watstar.uwaterloo.ca) wrote: : I just bought a apdatec 1542c controller from one of my friend. However, I : only have the card and a manual. I know there is a choice whether you want : the card only or the card with the kit. But I just wonder what actually is : in the kit? Cables? Diskettes? Manuals? Drivers for things like CD-ROM. : As well, would someone kindly tell : me what great in this card such that the price is a lot higher than the : other 16 bit SCSI card. Bus-master SCSI-II with ROM software control to allow changing of PROM address, IRQ, support for volumes larger than 1G, support for more than 2 disks under DOS, and works with just about everything on the planet (most OS's include built in drivers). And that's just off the top of my head. -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.