cyamamot@nunki.usc.edu (Cliff Yamamoto) (03/02/88)
To the person who inquired recently about avoiding the IBM 'sales pitch' for an updated hdisk BIOS. There is a product called DUB-14 from Golden Bow Systems in San Diego, CA. It's been around for quite sometime, I believe (when I spoke to them last) that it's a hardware plug in (ROM I think) that somehow maps itself to the disk table in the BIOS. I haven't used this product personally, but the other products I own (Vcache & Vopt) are great. I'd recommend you give them a call (619) 298-9349. The last I remember, it went for about $95. ------ Cliff Yamamoto ARPA: CYAMAMOT%NUNKI.usc.edu@oberon.usc.edu
rob@dhw68k.cts.com (Robert Kenyon) (03/11/88)
In article <368@nunki.usc.edu> cyamamot@nunki.usc.edu (Cliff Yamamoto) writes: > To the person who inquired recently about avoiding the IBM 'sales >pitch' for an updated hdisk BIOS. There is a product called DUB-14 >from Golden Bow Systems in San Diego, CA. It's been around for > I have used it in our Sperry IT to get a Priam 230 (RLL) drive for our Xenix system. It allowed us to use all of the drive (including the ten tracks intended for priam housekeeping.) We now have a 245 meg hard drive that really screams. We had a heck of a time trying to put an ESDI drive on the Sperry and finally gave up. If nothing else it's worth the $95 bucks for the drive tables it provides. Apparently it was initially designed for the Sperry. It hooks itself into the bios and replaces the internal drive types. This is good for applications that read their drive types from hardware and don't allow an override. -- I once was here but now I'm not. And no one's gonna pin it on me... Robert Kenyon - {trwrb,hplabs}!felix!dhw68k!rob - InterNet: rob@dhw68k.cts.com