SCO - Two harddisk controllers

John Boteler bote at csense.UUCP
Thu Oct 5 10:47:46 AEST 1989


>From article <728 at crdos1.crd.ge.COM>, by davidsen at crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr):...
> I found that the Adaptek 2372 was a factor of three slower than the
> WD1006VSR2 because Xenix doesn't use the BIOS.

Add to the list the DTC728x track buffering controller. Works
wonders under DOS, but Xenix cannot take advantage of it for
precisely the reason you cited. That's why we switched to
the VSR1 and VSR2 for Xenix use. All other applications do
fine with the DTC series, I have found.

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