lawesn@SouthBank.UUCP (Nick Lawes) (11/17/86)
*** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** I am interested in buying a hard disk controller board for the ST. I want to attach a standard drive (between 20MB and 80MB). I seem to remember that a while back somebody posted an article saying that Supra had bought out such an interface. So, what I am after :- Can someone in the U.S. mail me (or reply to this article) with the address of Supra (and any other manufacturers of such boards) and if possible prices too. Many thanks in advance, Nick Lawes -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Nick Lawes (Knowledge Based Systems Centre, South Bank Polytechnic) | +-------------------------------+------------------------------------------+ | ..mcvax!ukc!hrc63!kbsc!lawesn | Bug? What Bug? Oh, that's a FEATURE... | +-------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
turner@imagen.UUCP (D'arc Angel) (11/19/86)
> > *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** > > I am interested in buying a hard disk controller board for the ST. I want to > attach a standard drive (between 20MB and 80MB). > > I seem to remember that a while back somebody posted an article saying that > Supra had bought out such an interface. > > So, what I am after :- > >Can someone in the U.S. mail me (or reply to this article) with the address of I've waited to post this till I got everything involved but I've seen enough to convince me that the whole thing will work as promised. (deep breath taken) About a month ago I went up to Berekely MicroSystems to buy one of their hard disk controllers and adaptor boards, I have been happy as a clam with them since. First what are they; the controller board is a standard Adaptec 4000 hard disk controller the price BMS asked was in line with the street price (~ $115) (this is the exciting part) the adaptor board converts the atari DMA format to SCSI (~ $135) so whats so exciting ? 2 things; 1) the controller board has a real time clock builtin with battery backup builtin and 2) GET THIS the new release of the HDX program (which i am still waiting for (you listening chris ???)) supports 2 count them 2 hard disks per controller. to the best of my knowledge neither Supra nor atari can do that, in fact i believe that you need the mythical octaplex to support more than 1 HD. now for the bad new; the clock program needs to be run as an accessory rather than in the auto folder (they tell me that they are working on this) and i still haven't seen the new HDX driver so i can't tell you for sure that it works. however everything that i've gotten from them worked as promised so far so that i have no reason to believe that the clock.acc and 2 drive mod won't work. their address is: Berekely MicroSystems 1107 El Centro Ave. Oakland CA 94602 -- ---- These are days for the locust to eat - Winston Churchill Name: James M. Turner Mail: Imagen Corp. 2650 San Tomas Expressway, P.O. Box 58101 Santa Clara, CA 95052-8101 AT&T: (408) 986-9400 UUCP: ...{decvax,ucbvax}!decwrl!imagen!turner CompuServe: 76327,1575 GEnie : D-ARCANGEL