jlong@afit-ab.arpa (Jeffrey K. Long) (03/28/89)
Can someone tell me the advantages and disadvantages of using the Atari host adaptor for my home-brew hard-disk versus buying the (much)more expensive ICD or Supra or Berkley boards? I already have a clock on my sysptem, so that isn't important to me, money is! Has anyone built their system using the atari adaptor? What additional stuff will I need? Will it work with the Adaptec 4000 controller. What about formatting software? In short, I need information before I commit money I really hate to spend if I can do it myself. I am a pretty good hardware hacker, so I don't mind a little work to save myself a lot of money! ========================================================================= | Jeff Long jlong@blackbird.afit.af.mil (ARPA net) | | | | humble (and getting humbler by the day) graduate student; | | The Air Force Institute of Techology (what a great way of life??) | =========================================================================
al@tolerant.UUCP (Albert Palmer) (03/29/89)
In article <1015@afit-ab.arpa> jlong@blackbird.afit.af.mil (Jeffrey K. Long) writes: >Can someone tell me the advantages and disadvantages of using the Atari >host adaptor for my home-brew hard-disk versus buying the (much)more >expensive ICD or Supra or Berkley boards? I already have a clock on my The price I can buy the Atari host adaptor for is $60. The Supra now sells for $100. (B&C Computervisions Santa Clara,CA) The Atari host comes without the cable and needs the BMS pal to fix a problem it has. This pushs the price of the Atari host up to the price of the Supra host. Also the Supra has AtariDMA out and SCSI out. This makes it easy later when you want to add on. And you can always sell the clock you have now. al palmer