Thinkpad 750Cs vs. Adaptec APA-1460 vs. Toshiba XM-3201

[ucklw08 <ucklw08@ucl.ac.uk>]

>Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.periphs.scsi,alt.periphs.pcmcia
>Subject: PCMCIA/SCSI -- Adaptec APA-1460 -- Thinkpad 750Cs -- Toshiba CD-ROM
>
>Well, I just installed Adaptec's APA-1460 SlimSCSI PCMCIA SCSI-II card 
>in my Thinkpad 750Cs.  It works just great with an antique Maxtor 8760S, 
>a newer Maxtor 340 MB drive, and an Archive Viper 150S.  Disk transfer
>rate is about 1 to 1.6 MByte/sec.  Tape transfer rate is fast enough to
>keep the tape drive streaming.  In essence, I don't see any significant
>speed degredation compared to my ISA bus Adaptec 1542B and CF cards.
>
>However, while Adaptec's EZ-SCSI setup routine and while Adaptec's SCSI
>interrogator software both see my Toshiba XM-3201 CD-ROM (perhaps the
>grandfather of most modern CD-ROM drives -- compatible with most OS's:
>DOS, Windows, SCO UNIX, 386BSD, Linux, OS/2, Windows/NT, etc) -- their
>ASPI2DOS.SYS driver software only sees the Maxtor and the Archive Tape
>-- ASPI2DOS.SYS cannot see the Toshiba even if I turn off synchronous
>negotiation (and turn off everything else which can be turned off with
>the command line switches).  
>
>Does anyone know how to get Adaptec APA-1460 ASPI2DOS.SYS to speak with
>my Toshiba XM-3201 during system startup?
>
>Thanks, AJ Annala
>
>Dr. Alexander J. Annala
>Senior Research Fellow
>LMP/Pharmacology
>University College
>Gower Street
>London WC1E 6BT
>United Kingdom
>
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>EMAIL: a.annala@ucl.ac.uk