Is Future Domain SCSI card any good?

[Chip Salzenberg]

According to bill at bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion):
>This was my second attempt.  The first time I tried to install SCO
>Xenix and found that the Future Domain controller requires a kernel to
>be built on the machine after installing a 506/Esdi drive, and gen'ing
>a bootable SCSI kernel and then removing that drive and replacing with
>the SCSI controller/drive.

Such would be the case with any hard disk controller not directly
supported by Xenix.

>Is this combination, which appears to have been
>bought with low dollar in mind, a viable system.

My not so humble opinion: Future Domain SCSI should AVOIDED at all
costs.  Under no circumstances would I ever buy anything from Future
Domain.  I was once forced by the decision of some marketdroid to use
the Future Domain TMC-830 and -870 for a time.  They are
embarrassingly slow.  Things were so bad that my editor would stop
echoing keystrokes during the periodic buffer sync.

If you want speed, go with the Adaptec SCSI controller, which is
supported directly by SCO Xenix 2.3GT, or with one of the
register-compatible alternatives, which will work with any SCO
release.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT   <chip%tct at ateng.com>, <uunet!ateng!tct!chip>
          "The Usenet, in a very real sense, does not exist."