The NT Juggernaut?
Bruce Toback
cable. While there, I decided it was time to stop relying on luck and
original software diskettes to back up our PC, now running NT. So I looked
around for a backup device.
Not one of the tape backup kits on offer said anything about WinNT support.
Not HP, not Conner, not any of the off-brands. So I went over to where they
have the SCSI cards, figuring that I could use my SCSI DAT and not have to
keep another kind of tape around. They had half a dozen or so SCSI cards.
The only one which had an NT driver available was a $300 Adaptec VLB card,
and even for that card the driver had to be downloaded from the
manufacturer's BBS. Since I only paid $160 for the motherboard, I wasn't
about to buy a $300 SCSI card. I left the store empty-handed. (No doubt
I'll regret that after the power surge tonight, but for the moment I'm
feeling pleasantly outraged :-).
Incidentally, _all_ of the tape backup kits and all the SCSI cards had Unix
support. Of course what that means in the real world is anyone's guess, but
I still found it interesting.
Does anyone have an ISA or VLB SCSI card that they're using with NT? If so,
what kind is it? Also, is anyone using an HP tape backup device with NT,
and NTFS partitions?
-- Bruce
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Larry Boyd
> At lunch today, I went to my local computer superstore to buy an Ethernet
> cable. While there, I decided it was time to stop relying on luck and
> original software diskettes to back up our PC, now running NT. So I looked
> around for a backup device.
>
> Not one of the tape backup kits on offer said anything about WinNT support.
Bruce,
We're not using SCSI, but a parallel, external for rovering the device
from PC to PC. It is a Colorado 700 with QIC3010 format. Since it is
external, it was quite expensive (@$380), but I believe the internal
device would be cheaper. This device is used on NT, WFWG, and Win (no
we haven't tried it on Win95 yet, but I do expect it to fail).
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Larry Boyd <lb...@netcom.com>
Damon Duke
right out of the box. Virtually all DAT units are supported with NT's
included driver.
Steve Dirickson b894 westwins
support.
they
have the SCSI cards, figuring that I could use my SCSI DAT and not have
to
keep another kind of tape around. They had half a dozen or so SCSI cards.
The only one which had an NT driver available was a $300 Adaptec VLB
card,
and even for that card the driver had to be downloaded from the
manufacturer's BBS.>>
This isn't quite correct. (OK, so it isn't even close ;-). NT has
built-in support for dozens of SCSI adapters, so it isn't surprising that
these adapters don't make a special point of saying anything about
drivers for NT; they don't need them.
For example, the September '95 Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) for NT
3.51 shows the following list of supported SCSI adapters:
SCSI Host Adapter
Adaptec AHA-1510 34
Adaptec AHA-1520 34
Adaptec AHA-1522 34
Adaptec AHA-1522A
Adaptec AHA-1530P
Adaptec AHA-1542A 35
Adaptec AHA-1540B 36
Adaptec AHA-1542B 36
Adaptec AHA-1540C 37
Adaptec AHA-1542C 37
Adaptec AHA-1542CF 38
Adaptec AHA-1542CP
Adaptec AHA-1640
Adaptec AHA-1740 39
Adaptec AHA-1742 39
Adaptec AHA-1740A 40
Adaptec AHA-1742A 40
Adaptec AHA-2740
Adaptec AHA-2742
Adaptec AHA-2740A
Adaptec AHA-2742A
Adaptec AHA-2742AT
Adaptec AHA-2840
Adaptec AHA-2940
Adaptec AIC-6260
Adaptec AIC-7770 42
Advanced System Products ABP-842 1
Always IN-2000
AMIscsi Series 441 44
AMIscsi Series 48
AMIscsi Series 48 (with cache) 1,44
AMD PC-NET SCSI
BusLogic BT-445C
BusLogic BT-445S
BusLogic BT-542B
BusLogic BT-545C
BusLogic BT-545S
BusLogic BT-640A
BusLogic BT-646S 46
BusLogic BT-742A
BusLogic BT-747C
BusLogic BT-747S
BusLogic BT-946C
CMD Tech CSA-6000/F 1
COMPAQ Fast SCSI-2 Controller 2
COMPAQ 6260 SCSI-2 Controller
DPT SmartCache Plus (PM2011b)
DPT SmartCache Plus (PM2011b with cache) 44
DPT SmartCache Plus (PM2012b)
DPT SmartCache Plus (PM2012b with cache) 44
DPT SmartCache III (PM2021)
DPT SmartCache III (PM2021 with cache) 44
DPT SmartCache III (PM2022)
DPT SmartCache III (PM2022 with cache) 44
DPT SmartCache III (PM2024) 47
DPT SmartCache III (PM2024 with cache) 44,47
DPT SmartCache III (PM2122)
DPT SmartCache III (PM2122 with cache) 44
DPT SmartCache III (PM2124) 47
DPT SmartCache III (PM2124 with cache) 44,47
DPT SmartRAID (PM3222) 44
DPT SmartRAID (PM3224) 44,48
Data Technology Corp. 3290
Digital Equipment KZESC (SWXCR) EISA Raid Controller
Digital Equipment KZPAA (KZPSC) NCR 53C810-S PCI SCSI Adapter
Digital Equipment KZPBA SCSI Adapter 49
Digital Equipment KZPSA Differential SCSI Adapter 1
Future Domain MCS-600
Future Domain MCS-700
Future Domain SCSI2Go
Future Domain TMC-845 50,51,52
Future Domain TMC-850 50,51
Future Domain TMC-850M(ER) 51
Future Domain TMC-860 50,51
Future Domain TMC-860M 51
Future Domain TMC-885 50,51
Future Domain TMC-885M 51
Future Domain TMC-1610m
Future Domain TMC-1610mex
Future Domain TMC-1610mer
Future Domain TMC-1650
Future Domain TMC-1660
Future Domain TMC-1670
Future Domain TMC-1680
Future Domain TMC-3260 53
Future Domain TMC-7000EX
IBM PS/2 Microchannel SCSI Host Adapter
IBM PS/2 Microchannel SCSI Host Adapter (with cache)
Maynard 16-bit SCSI Adapter 46,55
MediaVision Pro Audio Spectrum-16 35,56
Mylex DAC960 52
Mylex DAC960LB 52
NCR 53C700 SCSI Adapter
NCR 53C700 SCSI Adapter
NCR 53C710 SCSI Adapter
NCR 53C810 SCSI Controller
NCR 53C90 SCSI Controller
NCR 53C94 SCSI Controller
NCR 8100S PCI Host Adapter Board
NCR 8150S PCI Host Adapter Board
NCR 8250S PCI Host Adapter Board
NCR 8251S PCI Host Adapter Board
Olivetti ESC-1 46
Olivetti ESC-2
Procom Tech Xelerator - ISA 1,62
QLogic Fast!SCSI ISA FL 1
QLogic Fast!SCSI EISA FL 1
QLogic Fast!SCSI IQ PCI
QLogic Fast!SCSI VESA Local FL 1
Rancho Technology RT1600-5 1,46
Tekram DC-820B 1
Tekram DC-820B (with cache) 1
Trantor T-128 35,50,63
Trantor T-130B 50,63
UltraStor 14f 64
UltraStor 24f 65
UltraStor 24fa
UltraStor 34f
Steve Dirickson WestWin Consulting
(360) 598-6111 sdir...@kpt.nuwc.navy.mil
David Greer
> Does anyone have an ISA or VLB SCSI card that they're using with NT? If so,
> what kind is it? Also, is anyone using an HP tape backup device with NT,
> and NTFS partitions?
We are using an Adaptec SCSI interface in our HP Vectra VL2 (486/66).
Attached to this is the cd-rom drive, a 1 GB disc drive (configured as
an NTFS partition with compression), and HP's JetStore 6000 tape
backup device. We use Windows NT built-in backup software and have
found that it works great. We use the Windows NT Resource Kit
scheduling software to automatically schedule the backup.
Paul Gobes and I found that installing the disc drive and the tape
backup device and getting them configured in Windows NT was a snap.
Figuring out the backup software was similarily easy. We didn't use
any of the backup software that came with the JetStore (and I don't
recall there being any mention of Windows NT). This configuration was
recommended by our local PC supplier and it hasn't let us down.
Cheers,
David <david...@robelle.com>
Jeff Lindberg
> Does anyone have an ISA or VLB SCSI card that they're using with NT? If so,
> what kind is it? Also, is anyone using an HP tape backup device with NT,
> and NTFS partitions?
We use a DEC TLZ-06 4mm drive hung off of an ISA Adaptec 1542CF (~$150 as
I recall) using the backup program that comes with WinNT 3.5 and it's
been working fine backing up 3 2Gb SCSI drives hung off of a VL Adaptec.
Each of the drives consists of a single NTFS partition. I also back-up
my NT workstation and a Novell 3.12 server in the same pass.
Jeff Lindberg, Information Technology Coordinator
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