PCMCIA SCSI cards advice

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Fri Sep 12 16:13:01 2003

> I was wondering if anyone had some experience and/or preferences with
> SCSI cards for laptops - specifically I want to hook my M4 Data 9914
> 9trk drive up to one of my laptop PCs (IBM or Dell) to archive/
> transport/backup tape images to-from the 11/44.

I use an Adaptec APA-1480 (32-bit Cardbus) with an HP 88780 9-track
drive. Back when I was using an older laptop that didn't support Cardbus,
I used the APA-1460 (16-bit PCMCIA).

I use them with Linux, but of course they work with Windows as well.
The 1460 works with DOS, but the 1480 does not.
Received on Fri Sep 12 2003 - 16:13:01 BST