SCSI cards

From: Geoff Reed <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
Date: Wed Feb 26 01:09:01 2003

I'm pretty sure that msdos 3.11 supported multiple partitions :) also if I
had a SCSI controller in the beastie I'd probably go on the quest for
rainbow Venix :)

At 09:37 PM 2/25/03 -0800, you wrote:
> > >I just wish I could find the SCSI controller that a German company made
> > >for the DEC Rainbow. it'd be nice to pull the 20 meg HD out and drop a
> > >500 meg SCSI in it's place :)
> >
> > Wow! Is this documented? That *does* sound cool. Though I'm not sure just
> > how long it'd take to defragment... :-)
> > How did it work with the OS's, which were limited to disk sizes nothing
> > like 500 Meg?
> > - Mark
>
>That's a valid question, how big of an drive will the OS's on a Rainbow
>support? I'm guessing you might be limited to 30MB, even if you've a bigger
>drive in the system. IIRC, CP/M and old versions of DOS only support up to
>30MB.
>
> Zane
Received on Wed Feb 26 2003 - 01:09:01 GMT