dbb@aicchi.UUCP (Ben Burch ) (10/16/88)
From: Ben Burch To: All Msg #108, 12-Oct-88 23:06:18 Subject: Tulin 50 meg HD Kit Well, I ordered the 50 meg drive kit that Tulin Corp., San Jose CA was advertising in Computer Shopper. The kit arrived after a delay of less than 10 days. It was, if anything, the most over-packaged thing I have ever received. There were so many styrofoam "peanuts" and other foam cushions in the box that it would have been hard to damage it if you tried. The assembly instructions were adequate but required several readings before all steps were clear. One step required that the activity LED be clipped from the controller board and that the wires from the front panel LED be slipped over it's leads, but the leads were so short that soldering was required. Curiously, the system shipped with it was unable to bring up the disk, but a stock copy of system 6.0, with their formatter, was quite happy to initialize it. Also on the distribution disk was a SCSI accelerator INIT. This does not work. Don't use it. In my case, it would freeze the system during multi-file copies. Also be aware that the driver does not support tags, so undelete utilities will probably not function. All-in-all, I think that this was a well spent $599, but there is still room for them to improve.
uejio@lll-lcc.llnl.gov (Jeremy Y. Uejio) (10/18/88)
In article <8@aicchi.UUCP> dbb@aicchi.UUCP (Ben Burch ) writes: >Well, I ordered the 50 meg drive kit that Tulin Corp., San Jose CA was >advertising in Computer Shopper. The kit arrived after a delay of less than 10 I picked up the Tulin drives two days after I ordered it. >The assembly instructions >were adequate but required several readings before all steps were clear. One >step required that the activity LED be clipped from the controller board and >that the wires from the front panel LED be slipped over it's leads, but the >leads were so short that soldering was required. I had the same problem but managed to connect the LEDs without soldering. >Curiously, the system shipped >with it was unable to bring up the disk, but a stock copy of system 6.0, with >their formatter, was quite happy to initialize it. I didn't have any problems with their formatter. Infact their formatter seemed to support a variety of drives. >Also on the distribution >disk was a SCSI accelerator INIT. This does not work. Don't use it. In my >case, it would freeze the system during multi-file copies. Again, I didn't have any problems with this INIT although I'm running system 5.0. All in all I'm happy with my Tulin Drive although it seems just a bit slow. The specs say that the avg. access time is 85 ms but it doesn't seem that slow so it's probably wrong. BTW I paid $640.39 including tax. A real steal for 50 MB! jeremy -- Jeremy Uejio (pronounced 'oo-ay-joe') uejio@lll-lcc.llnl.gov uucp: {gatech,pyramid,rutgers}!lll-lcc!uejio other things to try: uejio%lll-lcc.llnl.gov@relay.cs.net