ultra scsi pci cards at compgeeks

[FoBoT]

new , not refurbed/used
they are selling tekram pci U-scsi cards for $9.50 (internal only)
or $14.50 for one with both internal and external connector

cheap price for a card to run a scsi burner/dvd player

Linky

 

[llreye]

IIRC, card using Tekram's chips were very low performing vs the ones where they use LSI Logic chips.

 

[Kwad Guy]

Tekram is not the best, but is perfectly fine for running devices like CDroms, since
these are very low throughput devices anyway.

In fact, a cheap SCSI card is the perfect way to get things like CDroms off
your fast SCSI chain (you don't want to mix things like Ultra160 SCSI
with SCSI/SCSI2 devices like CDroms, since the hard drives will degredate down
to the performance level of the CDroms).

OT: Anyone seen any Promise UDMA66/100 controllers cheap lately? I need a few and
don't want to pay much...I've seen them cheap before, but not recently. System pulls are fine.

Kwad

 

[kumanchu]

as another point of reference, tekram's scsi controllers perform on par with those available from adaptec. i think from a few reviews i've read the differences are usually within a margin of about 4%, sometimes with tekram cards beating out the adaptec.

this is far from a junky peice of hardware.

 

[JumpOnDeals]

Originally posted by: FoBoT
new , not refurbed/used
they are selling tekram pci U-scsi cards for $9.50 (internal only)
or $14.50 for one with both internal and external connector

Use the 10% coupon for an additional 10% off.

Steve

 

[sleefer]

FYI, neither of these cards are bootable. No bios on the cards. CDRom's, Zip drives, etc. would be about all you could run off them. It's a good price if you need one for that type of thing.

EDIT: Another question would be will they work in 2K or XP? Neither list beyond NT4. I know some of the older Mylex/Bus Logic cards won't work in 2K. Just checked Tekram's site, yes they do have drivers for both OS's.

 

[nugglife4me]

 

[nugglife4me]

Just had an idea about these cards.......
if indeed they do work under win2k then you *may* be able to do raid 0 with these cards under 2k
from what I understand 2k has built in raid 0 software driven support also with no boot option but
would still be good to get some faster xfers outa some older smaller drives cheap too.
I dunno small ftp serv or vid editing would work fine.....

anyone know what I'm talkin about/or can confirm this could be a good deal indeed cause some smaller ultra drives can be had for very cheap, although not good for mission critical data though cause most are refurbs or pulls.....

~les

 

[SimMike2]

I got one of the cheaper internal version of this card and it worked with all versions of Windows. You will probably have to download XP drivers from the Tekram website. Works fine for CD and CDRW drives. No BIOS, so hard drives aren't bootable. Included on the driver disk are DOS ASPI drivers, so you can customize your Windows 98 Startup floppy disk to configure the SCSI drives for access from the DOS prompt. The reason I bought one of these cards was because I had SCSI CD drives and my old Western Digital controller didn't have either W2K or XP drivers.

 

[kenja]

Reminder: 10% off only applies to non-Geek Specials; the internal-only interface is on special. Coupon code is available at [cough]techbargains[/cough].com

 

[Agaricus]

I realize that there is no bios so you can't boot up a HD, but how big a HD will this card support or is there a limit??? I have some old 9 Gb HDs which will not run on my Adaptec SCSI2 card which is limited to 8 Gb. That machine is largely for storage so I cold care less about the speed. Looked on website but this information is not given.

 

[apple222]

http://www.tekram.com/Updates.asp?Product=DC-305_Series

Updated driver available for all operating MS operating systems.
Just reformat floppy driver disk that came with card and unzip download to floppy.


Use the DC-315U to connect Zip and Nokia DVB-S.

Works great and inexpensive.

 

[welshman]

I use an adaptec 2920 still, it is always detected as a future domian - no XP drivers. Copy the win2k driver across, works like a charm.

Anyway, back to topic, this board aparently had no BIOS, no ctrl-a for the scsi bios menu on boot or none of that, but it will still boot off a scsi drive with scsi id set to 0.

This may do the same.

 

[welshman]

Originally posted by: Agaricus
I realize that there is no bios so you can't boot up a HD, but how big a HD will this card support or is there a limit??? I have some old 9 Gb HDs which will not run on my Adaptec SCSI2 card which is limited to 8 Gb. That machine is largely for storage so I cold care less about the speed. Looked on website but this information is not given.

Wow, what card was that, it was my understanding that scsi didn't have size limitations like IDE, can't remember the details but it was something to do with how the space is referenced logically rather than physically or sommit.