olle@milou.cd.chalmers.se. (Olle Wikstr|m) (07/23/89)
I am interested in buying a Gateway 386 25MHz system. I am considering the system with the cache. I have no real idea what improvement this will make compared to the system without cache. Is there anyone out there who have any experience with those systems. For example do you know who makes these mother- boards? I have been talking to the sales people at Gateway. They gave me this info: "the SCSI disk (ST297N w ST02 controller) is more error prune than the MFM disk (ST4096 w a DTC controller) and it is incompatible with OS/2 and network software." The SCSI drive also heats up quicker they claim. Has anyone experienced any of these problems? I can not see any reason how the disk could cause any problems like this. I would like to have SCSI drives, to be able to use more disks using the same controller later. I got the impression that they where more eager selling the MFM disk, and that this was the real reason. To check this up I called the company "Hard Disks" and talked to a person there that appeared to be very competent. He said that they have never heard of the problems that Gateway was talking about. Instead he said that the 296 had a MTBF of 35000h and the 4096 10000h. So he would say that the 296 was the best buy of these. I have a feeling that he is right, but it is a bit confusing. Does anyone have any experience of these disks on Gateway 386 25MHz systems? I am also interested in any other experiences people have of Gateway 2000 and their 386 25 MHz systems. Please reply by mail direct to me at olle@molndal.ericsson.se Olle Wikstrom
William.Cummins@bigtime.fidonet.org (William Cummins) (07/25/89)
the new Segate reseller report gives the st4096 mfm drive had a MTBF of
30k and now is updated to 40,000 hours and the ST296 SCSI drive had a
MTFB of 45k now has one of 70,000 hours I have one of the ST296 drives
in my 20mhz 386 and i like it but the transfer rate isn't up to the
specs I only get 598kps or so not the rated amount WAC
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