H235_016%ccvax.ucd.ie@FORSYTHE.STANFORD.EDU (Padraig) (04/12/89)
I'm planning on getting a 65 M/byte drive from 3rd Coast Technologies,
has anyone bought a drive from them ? Any comments, good or bad, appreciated.
Does anyone know the specs of the 65M/byte drive ? Is it a 28 ns drive ?
I heard that the 40 M/byte model consists of a Berkely Microsystems BMS-100
DMA -> SCSI board,an Adaptec 4070 SCSI controller board and a Seagate 251 drive.
The main advantages I see with the drive are that a second mech can be added
easily, it comes preformatted and most of all the price is low at #549. The
main disadvantage I anticipate is with connecting other DMA devices later as
there is no DMA through. Is this much of a problem ? Do most other DMA devices
provide their own DMA through port ?
Thanks in advance for any information,
Padraig.
( By the way the price given is in pounds sterling - the pound sign # is always
getting converted into $ (dollar) signs on it's way through BITNET. )
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