mjm@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Michael Murphy) (10/07/88)
I've been trying to follow threads of discussions about what kind of hard drives/controllers to get for a 1000, but i still have incomplete information at best. Would some of you with experience mind e-mailing me your opinions/recommendations/warnings? I really would like to get a hard drive system soon, and am unsure about the best way to go about it within a $900 budget (this basically rules out getting an expansion chassis with slots that would accomodate B2000 Bridgecards and other cool stuff, which would be about $900 to begin with). I understand from what i've gathered so far that autobooting under 1.3 is impossible given my above restriction, as is true DMA, but i must compromise. I would still like to hear a bit about those, though. I basically would like about 50-65MB (ST157N?), and access time of at most 40ms. Prices and availability would be greatly appreciated, too. Thanks... -Michael
rap@rap.ardent.com (Rob Peck) (04/29/89)
There have been lots of postings from folks who, after installing their hard drives, have had various problems with them until someone here or elsewhere finally gave them that critical piece of information that they needed. I'd like very much to put a compilation of such Amiga-Hard-Drive pearls of wisdom, i.e. what information the manufacturer often leaves out of the install procedure, or makes extremely difficult to locate, or just something that, if the user only knew about, he'd actually be ABLE to understand what the rest of the install document was all about. I did capture the hard-drive-blues story in the intro posting to comp.sys.amiga.tech (from KJohn, I believe), and that certainly is useful information. If anyone would like to volunteer other information, I'd be very grateful. I have about another week before I simply HAVE to turn in a few useful paragraphs about this topic for the second edition of the Amiga Companion. I'd be pleased to acknowledge any useful contributions to the topic... see your name in print :-) :-) I figure by helping new users this way, it could sell more Amigas, right? And thats good for all of us. Rob Peck
limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) (04/30/89)
In article <6112@ardent.UUCP> rap@rap.ardent.com (Rob Peck) writes: > I did capture the hard-drive-blues story in the intro posting to > comp.sys.amiga.tech (from KJohn, I believe), and that certainly > is useful information. If anyone would like to volunteer other > information, I'd be very grateful. I have about another week > before I simply HAVE to turn in a few useful paragraphs about > this topic for the second edition of the Amiga Companion. I'd > be pleased to acknowledge any useful contributions to the topic... > see your name in print :-) :-) I was wondering if anyone out there has written a program that computes near-optimal mount lists? I.E. A program that I can say, "I want a ~10 meg partition, a partition exactly 880K, and the rest" or "I want a 2 ~twenty meg partitions and two 880K partitions" etc and get the proper mount lists with minimum wasted blocks? If I had TK!Solver on my IBM I could do it. If I had a decent spreadsheet on my Amiga I could figure it out. I know the problem is NP-Complete and the "about 10 meg" capability could really make for some interesting permutations but a mathematician should be able to work something out, right? Offer: I can program. I understand the problem enough to explain it to a mathematician. Can you do this kind of math? How would you like to get on a fish disk and become famous? Mail to me and maybe we can write a utility that will help out a lot of people. Tom -- Tom Limoncelli -- tlimonce@drunivac.Bitnet -- limonce@pilot.njin.net Drew University -- Box 1060, Madison, NJ -- 201-408-5389 Standard Disclaimer: I am not the mouth-piece of Drew University
thywiss@csvax.cs.ukans.edu (John A. Thywissen) (05/01/89)
SCSI Hard drive problem: Drive will not operate (not even power up on some drives), and **Drive activity light does not track controller's light**. ^^^^^^ This is the giveaway. Possible Cause: SCSI cable UPSIDE-DOWN or cable cabled backwards. Note: Manufacturers have a helova time debugging this. --John Thywissen ------- John A. Thywissen <thywiss@csvax.cs.ukans.edu> 1122 West Campus Rd. Rm. 213 Senior, University of Kansas Lawrence, KS 66045-8081 Dept. of Computer Science (913) 864 2646 Amiga Developer/Guru