kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth) (06/22/89)
The M.A.S.T. Tiny Tiger is a SCSI hard drive that connects to the parallel printer port. They advertise fast loading (but not in diskperf terms, so I don't know). I have an A1000 so not every drive will work on my system. I understand this drive will not be as high-performance as DMA drives. That's OK. I don't know the reputation of the maker. If anyone has used this drive, I'd like to know. If anyone has horror stories about other M.A.S.T. peripherals, please let me hear about them. Thanks fer yer support
Marcus@cup.portal.com (Mark W Shnayer) (06/23/89)
Kurt@tc.fluke.com (Kurt Guntheroth) says: >The M.A.S.T. Tiny Tiger is a SCSI hard drive that connects to the parallel >printer port. They advertise fast loading (but not in diskperf terms, so I >don't know). I have an A1000 so not every drive will work on my system. I >understand this drive will not be as high-performance as DMA drives. That's OK. > >I don't know the reputation of the maker. If anyone has used this drive, >I'd like to know. If anyone has horror stories about other M.A.S.T. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >peripherals, please let me hear about them. > >Thanks fer yer support You want horror stories about Tiny Tiger? I got a doozy for ya. I ordered my MAST Tiny Tiger 50 meg for $799 thru a local Amiga only store. The first ( I did say first...) one I received was a total waste. "Not a DOS disk" and other messages. I tried reformatting and that seemed ok (took 5 1/2 hours, figure that one out...). Then I copied about 500k to the drive and got massive read/write errors. Heck with this. I brought it back (thats why I go thru locals, NOT mail order), and asked for a replacement. The store apologized and ordered another one. When they got the HD this time they checked it out before calling me. They found not only was the mountlist full of errors, but that the media itself once again had massive hard sector errors. For some reason those errors are not getting mapped out. This drive is SUPPOSED to be "plug n' play". Comes already formatted and with Ultra-Dos (tm) Utilities on it. Needless to say they returned THAT one too and ordered yet another one direct from M.A.S.T. instead of going to their distributor. The replacement ought to be here in a few days and I'll post the continuing horror story or maybe it won't be a horror story and everyone will be happy (yea.....sure...) Marcus@cup.portal.com
elg@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Green) (06/23/89)
in article <9254@fluke.COM>, kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth) says: > The M.A.S.T. Tiny Tiger is a SCSI hard drive that connects to the parallel > printer port. They advertise fast loading (but not in diskperf terms, so I > don't know). I have an A1000 so not every drive will work on my system. I > understand this drive will not be as high-performance as DMA drives. That's OK. I have no experience with the Tiny Tiger. However, I do recall a previous attempt at a parallel-port hard drive (Microbotics?). It was extremely slow -- about the same speed as a floppy drive. I recommend a Supra or C Ltd. instead. Both SHOULD have an A1000 version (I don't know if they have run out yet or not). -- Eric Lee Green P.O. Box 92191, Lafayette, LA 70509 ..!{ames,decwrl,mit-eddie,osu-cis}!killer!elg (318)989-9849 "I have seen or heard 'designer of the 68000' attached to so many names that I can only guess that the 68000 was produced by Cecil B. DeMille." -- Bcase