news@daver.bungi.com (05/08/90)
From: ericz@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Eric Zamost) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc,ba.market.computers Subject: Miniscribe 9380S - info? Message-ID: <3150@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 7 May 90 16:51:49 GMT .... The drive which looks best thus far is a Miniscribe 9380S, 330Meg, 16ms, SCSI, full height, new, for $850, from Hi-Tech, Inc. ==============================================^^^^ (The story is that Miniscribe was purchased by Maxtor, and Maxtor is getting rid of the old stock. The drive would be warranteed by Maxtor for a year.) .... Also, if anyone has a drive they wish to sell which might work for me, a SCSI controller worthy of this drive, or a case and power supply for a full height drive (I might make it external), please contact me. From: dougp@ico.isc.com (Doug Pintar) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: Adaptec 154xB SCSI host adapter (was: Re: WD SCSI Controller) Message-ID: <1990May7.211407.6954@ico.isc.com> Date: 7 May 90 21:14:07 GMT In article <1990May6.135921.13129@cti-software.nl> pim@cti-software.nl (Pim Zandbergen) writes: >New Adaptec 154xB ? Could anybody shed some light over this? >What is different from the A model? How compatible is it? I have one, and it's very similar from a programming standpoint, so the existing 386/ix HPDD driver works just fine. It has some additional programmability as to speeds when doing its first-party DMA, and you can get more information (like who's negotiated synchronous transfers) from it. The board is half-long, and may be a bit faster. It also supports both target and initiator modes, so you could use SCSI to connect two ====^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ systems (386/ix, however, does not support this). It's a nice board; I have no idea as to how available it is, however. I got mine from Adaptec to make sure the new firmware/bios/hardware all worked with 386/ix. Doug Pintar From: ericz@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Eric Zamost) Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Need advice on a 300 Meg. Message-ID: <3159@darkstar.ucsc.edu> Date: 7 May 90 20:25:40 GMT I just asked about the Miniscribe 9380S for $850. Now I am also considering a CDC-Imprimis 94171-307 (320M, 16.5ms, SCSI, FH) for $900. I think that the CDC is probably the better drive. ========^^^^ Both come with 1 year warranties. The CDC supposedly has an MTBF of 100,000 hours, and the Miniscribe has 50,000 (are these numbers meaningful?) Any comments?
dlr@daver.bungi.com (Dave Rand) (05/09/90)
[In the message entitled "from comp.periphs.scsi" on May 8, 12:16, Phil Budne writes:] > > The drive which looks best thus far is a Miniscribe 9380S, > 330Meg, 16ms, SCSI, full height, new, for $850, from Hi-Tech, Inc. > ==============================================^^^^ [...deleted...] > I just asked about the Miniscribe 9380S for $850. Now I am > also considering a CDC-Imprimis 94171-307 (320M, 16.5ms, SCSI, FH) > for $900. I think that the CDC is probably the better drive. > ========^^^^ > > Any comments? Yup. I'm happy with the Miniscribe drives that we got. The price was great, the service has been fine, and they shipped the drives to the non-local folks, saving Karl a heap of trouble. All in all, we got a good deal! If we wait a year (or maybe 6 months), there will be a {bigger/smaller/ faster/slower/same} drive for less money. It never fails in this industry. It was the right drive, and the right time, at the right price for me. -- Dave Rand {pyramid|hoptoad|sun|vsi1}!daver!dlr Internet: dlr@daver.bungi.com