DPT SmartConnex

[Wei Jen Yeh]

Hello,
  The June issue of the Byte magazine has an ad about the DPT SmartConnex
scsi disk controller card.  Has any one seen/used this card yet?  Can you
answer the following questions for me? Thanks in advance.

  o Does it support the CDC WREN series?
  o Does it have on-board cache?
  o How about tape drive support? (It it a disk controller or scsi controller?)
  o Can it coexist with MFM disk controller like the WA2/MM2 series?
  o Can I have two drives on the MFM disk controller together with SmartConnex?
  o Can the system boot from that card like AHA1542 does?
  o Is there a floppy interface?
  o Any software driver/utility supplied with it?
  o Any comments?

  The card is to go in 386 machines running s5r3.2.  Thanks again.

Wei Jen Yeh

yeh at cs.purdue.edu
Department of Computer Science
Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana