mjg@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Michael Gingell) (12/27/88)
Several dealers are advertising the ARLL disk controller from
PERSTOR. This claims to give a 1.9 X increase in storage on any
drive rated for MFM or RLL. For example one company offers it
with the Seagate ST4096 drive (80 Meg 28mS full height MFM drive)
and says you get 150 Meg of storage.
Has anybody any direct experience with this controller or has
any magazine reviewed it ?. I have a ST4096 but I would like
to know whether it has problems before spending around $350 for
the controller.
Any comments appreciated, thanks....
Mike Gingell ....ecsvax!mjgthaler@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler) (12/28/88)
I have dealt with this company and they have been pretty good, the card
will work with that drive, but they have had some problems w/ certain
386 computers (Mine is a Dell 310 20Mhz) that had conficts with this
card. They claim that the bugs have been worked out on the latest
version of the card. The performance is pretty good, but not as good
speed wize as the Adaptec card which works better with Minscribe's than
the Seagates. The Perstore requires a 1:3 interleave while the Adaptect
gives you a 1:1 interleave (if you have a fast enough bus to keep up). I
am still waiting for Perstor to deliver on their yet to be released high
speed version which has on the card disk caching which will allow for
1:1 interleave and keep the 1.9 ARLL expansion. I like the people, their
r & d has been a little slow. If and when I get the HI_SPEED 16 bit
card, I will report to this newsgroup.
Maurice Thaler SYSOP Audio Projects BBS (608) 836-9473
SYSOP Power Board BBS (608) 222-8842