2.1.1. Disk Controllers

• WD1003 (any generic MFM/RLL)

• WD1007 (any generic IDE/ESDI)

• IDE

• ATA

• Adaptec 152x series ISA SCSI controllers

• Adaptec 154x series ISA SCSI controllers

• Adaptec 174x series EISA SCSI controller in standard and enhanced mode.

• Adaptec 274x/284x/2940/3940 (Narrow/Wide/Twin) series EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI controllers

• Adaptec AIC-6360 based boards, which includes the AHA-152x and SoundBlaster SCSI cards. Note: You cannot boot from the SoundBlaster cards as they have no on-board BIOS, which is necessary for mapping the boot device into the system BIOS I/O vectors. They are perfectly usable for external tapes, CDROMs, etc, however. The same goes for any other AIC-6x60 based card without a boot ROM. Some systems DO have a boot ROM, which is generally indicated by some sort of message when the system is first powered up or reset. Check your system/board documentation for more details.

• Buslogic 545S & 545c Note: that Buslogic was formerly known as "Bustek".

• Buslogic 445S/445c VLB SCSI controller

• Buslogic 742A/747S/747c EISA SCSI controller.

• Buslogic 946c PCI SCSI controller

• Buslogic 956c PCI SCSI controller

• NCR 53C810/53C815/53C825/53C860/53C875 PCI SCSI controller.

• NCR5380/NCR53400 (``ProAudio Spectrum'') SCSI controller.

• DTC 3290 EISA SCSI controller in 1542 emulation mode.

• UltraStor 14F/24F/34F SCSI controllers.

• Seagate ST01/02 SCSI controllers.

• Future Domain 8xx/950 series SCSI controllers.

• WD7000 SCSI controllers.

With all supported SCSI controllers, full support is provided for SCSI-I & SCSI-II peripherals, including Disks, tape drives (including DAT) and CD ROM drives.

The following CD-ROM type systems are supported at this time:

• Soundblaster SCSI and ProAudio Spectrum SCSI (cd)

• Mitsumi (all models) proprietary interface (mcd)

• Matsushita/Panasonic (Creative) CR-562/CR-563 proprietary interface (matcd)

• Sony proprietary interface (scd)

• ATAPI IDE interface (experimental and should be considered ALPHA quality!) (wcd)