clee@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Chang L. Lee) (04/17/91)
I've come across a seemingly inexpensive way of increasing harddisk capacity. The Perstor PS180-16FN is a 16 bit controller advertised as being able to almost double the capacity of MFM drives (e.g. ST251 from 40MB to approximately 72MB.) This is done with a proprietory data encoding scheme. The dealer quoted me $200 for the card. Has anyone experience with this product, or can point me to reviews? Thanks
James Chang <ACPS7028@Ryerson.CA> (04/18/91)
Have you looked at the other Data Compression boards on the market?? I believe there's a few others on the market, ex. Stacker, although I have never used it before, Stacker is suppose to have IDE support. You may purchase Stacker software alone, or in combination with the Stacker Co-Processor board. The best thing to do is pop into your local comp. store and get specs on them.
jayh@ms.uky.edu (Jay Hofacker) (04/20/91)
clee@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Chang L. Lee) writes: >I've come across a seemingly inexpensive way of increasing harddisk >capacity. The Perstor PS180-16FN is a 16 bit controller advertised >as being able to almost double the capacity of MFM drives (e.g. ST251 >from 40MB to approximately 72MB.) This is done with a proprietory >data encoding scheme. >The dealer quoted me $200 for the card. Has anyone experience with >this product, or can point me to reviews? I just bought and installed a used 16bit Perstor card on my BBS machine. It seems to work fine, though slightly slower than the 1:1 RLL controller I was using. I had a little trouble getting it installed, but a call to their tech support cleared everything up. From talking to others who have tried the Perstor card, I've found that it is picky about what kind of system it will run with. If you can get it working, it runs beautifully and reliably, but it is not compatible with all systems and drives. -- Jay Hofacker, sysop of the Audio/Visual Exchange, (606)254-1751 3/12/24 MNP 5 Mail: jayh@ms.uky.edu / uk02779@ukpr.uky.edu -- Yes, my signature is only 2 lin