uda@amnesix.liu.se (Ulf Dahlen) (09/16/87)
I would appreciate any advice from you Amiga-hackers out there on
what to think of when buying a hard disc for the Amiga 500.
Is 20Meg really enough? Is there any specific drive manufacturer with
good/bad reputation? Any problem with interfacing? etc....
Please reply by mail.
(Maybe this is a very common question in comp.sys.amiga, but the
flood of articles in this group has forced me to use 'catch up'
very frequently and lately I haven't read this group.)
/Ulf
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Ulf Dahlen
Dept of Computer & Info Science, University of Linkoping, Sweden
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"The beginning is a very delicate time."jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow) (09/21/87)
In article <658@amnesix.liu.se> uda@amnesix.liu.se (Ulf Dahlen) writes: >I would appreciate any advice from you Amiga-hackers out there on >what to think of when buying a hard disc for the Amiga 500. Reliability, proper handling of the expansion architecture, and speed for starters. >Is 20Meg really enough? Can you afford more? If so begin to think at 40megs. And soon enough that will be stiflingly small. >Is there any specific drive manufacturer with >good/bad reputation? I have both a Supra and a MAS-20. The Supra's faster. It has a couple problems though. It won't autoconfigure correctly with a Starboard 2 inboard of it. It wants to be closest to the Amiga. And when I first brought it up it had a lot of error problems. That has gone away recently partly due to a new driver (That doesn't work for David Joiner's drive...). The MAS-20 is a little slow. It is much quieter. it is bigger. (The 3.5" Miniscribe in the Supra really screams when seeking...) >Any problem with interfacing? etc.... I've tried to add a second randomly chosen drive to the Supra. It didn't want to work. That may have been the SCSI to ST506 converter I have - WD1003SCS. Other than that note the inboard outboard problem above. New driver to cure that is due RSN. It is a SW problem. (The original driver for the Supra didn't care.) >Please reply by mail. Sorry - mail doesn't seem to work for me here very well. Over half the messages I send out come back. I does the best I can with available resources and time. >/Ulf >__________ >Ulf Dahlen -- <@_@> BIX:jdow INTERNET:jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM UUCP:{akgua, hplabs!hp-sdd, sdcsvax, ihnp4, nosc}!crash!gryphon!jdow Remember - A bird in the hand often leaves a sticky deposit. Perhaps it was better you left it in the bush with the other one.