Driver: DPT SCSI family
Last Update: December 18, 1997
Availability Information
A version of this driver is on the OPENSTEP CD-ROM
No updated versions of this driver are available
Driver Name / Installer .pkg: DPTSCSIDriver
Driver Type: SCSI
Driver Scope: Product Family
Supported Components:
PC Bus / Interface Supported by Driver*: EISA, Integrated, ISA, PCI
General Overview notes: The DPT SCSI driver update is designed to support the 2000 and 3000 series of SCSI adapters from DPT. This driver does not support the DPT 2011 ISA Adapter. The DPT 32xx series SmartRAID SCSI adapters include RAID and Cache capability, and support from 1 to 3 SCSI channels. This driver replaces the NEXTSTEP 3.3 DPT 2000 Adapter driver.
Supported Products / Add-on Adapters:
Model# Bus Description
PM2021/90 ISA SCSI adapter
PM2021/95 ISA SCSI adapter
PM2022/90 EISA SCSI adapter
PM2022/95 EISA SCSI adapter
PM2024 PCI SCSI adapter
PM2041W * ISA Wide SCSI adapter
PM2042W * EISA Wide SCSI adapter
PM2044W * PCI Wide SCSI adapter
PM2122/90 EISA SCSI adapter
PM2122/95 EISA SCSI adapter
PM2124 PCI SCSI adapter
PM2124W PCI WIDE SCSI adapter
PM2142W * EISA Wide SCSI adapter
PM3021 ISA SCSI RAID controller (Not tested, should work)
PM3222 EISA SCSI RAID controller
PM3224 PCI SCSI RAID controller
PM3224W PCI WIDE SCSI RAID controller
DPT-TWR n/a 6-bay SCSI Tower
DPT-TWR/W n/a 6-bay WIDE SCSI Tower (Not tested, should work)
* These products have not yet been tested by NeXT's SQA Dept.
Supported Products / Systems (ie integrated into PC System):
NEC Express II P60 (On-Board)
Special Features of Driver / Driver Notes:
The onboard floppy controller, available on some cards, is not supported.
This device driver provides information in the Configure application's help panel. Choose Info>Help from the Configure menu and scroll down to find this device driver's help topic.
SCSI Driver Details
Supported Connectors: 50-pin Centronics (Standard SCSI), 50-pin Header (Internal SCSI), 50-pin High Density (SCSI-2), 68-pin High Density (Wide SCSI)
Access Mode:
Attributes*: SCSI-2
Cache Size Supported*: 16MB, 4MB, 64MB
Known Problems
The following products have been reported as working:
PM2044UW PCI Ultra Wide SCSI adapter
PM2144UW PCI Ultra Wide SCSI adapter
PM3224W PCI WIDE SCSI RAID controller
PM3332UW EISA Ultra WIDE SCSI RAID
controller
Driver Version Notes
4.03 - Released on OPENSTEP 4.0 User CD-ROM
* - Indicates information that is inclusive of the entire capability of this driver. Not all devices supported by this driver may include all features listed.
Product Vendor
Distributed Processing Technology
140 Candace Drive
Maitland, FL 32751
USA
+1 (407) 830 5522 phone
+1 (407) 831 6432 bulletin board system
+1 (407) 260 5366 fax
URL:
http://www.dpt.com