heasley@bu-ast.bu.edu (Jim Heasley) (08/07/90)
I recently came across an ad for a disk controller from a company named PERSTOR which claims to essentially double the amount of information that can be stored on most standard disks. From what I can gather from their flyer, they provide a controller which uses a special encoding scheme and a replacement BIOS for the computer that understands the mapping between standard disk types and their encoding. They claim to be Sco Xenix, Interactive Unix, and OS/2 compatible. I'm running Intel's (formerly Bell Technology) Unix 3.2.2 and would be very interested to make a major upgrade to my disk storage for the very modest price of a new controller (it seems too good to be true, in fact). However, I'm a bit nervous about buying the controller and discovering that it's not compatible with the Intel kernel. Has anyone out there all ready tried this and if so with what results? Jim Heasley Dept. of Astronomy Boston University (on leave from U. Hawaii) heasley@buast5.bu.edu
tron1@tronsbox.xei.com (HIM) (08/10/90)
>Item:1953 About: Perstor Controller & Intel 386 Unix? >Author: [Jim Heasley] (*Masked*@bu-ast.bu.edu) >Date: Tue Aug 7 07:38:23 1990 >Lines: 21 Keyw: >I recently came across an ad for a disk controller from a company >named PERSTOR which claims to essentially double the amount of >information that can be stored on most standard disks. From what I can >gather from their flyer, they provide a controller which uses a special >encoding scheme and a replacement BIOS for the computer that understands >the mapping between standard disk types and their encoding. They claim >to be Sco Xenix, Interactive Unix, and OS/2 compatible. > Ok.. well, here's what I can tell you. Go for it. I am (as they told me at Perstore) the first person to have run one of them undert a Un*x variant (ISC) and they didn't have a clue then but offered to refund me if it didn't work. Give it a shot -- it is a sweet card. ========[ Xanadu Enterprises Inc. Amiga & Unix Software Development]======== = "And in the darkened offices, the terminals shine like stars." = ============= Ken Jamieson: uunet!tronsbox.xei.com!tron1 ================== = NONE of the opinions represented here are endorsed by either = = Xanadu Enterpises or its clients, AT&T Bell Labs or others. = ==== The Romantic Encounters BBS 201-759-8450(PEP) / 201-759-8568(2400) ====
marz@cbnewsm.att.com (martin.zam) (08/15/90)
It works! I got ISC 2.0.2 to install with the Perstor controller and a Miniscribe 6085. The controller that works is actually my second Perstor. The first one was flakey as hell. Some drives worked some of the time. Anyway, I got it to work with the replacement controller card (with 3.05 BIOS) without a hitch. I did nothing out of the ordinary to make it run. Any other stories out there with this controller? BTW, I received a bunch of Email messages asking about this combo, and figured posting this to be as good as return mail. Martin Zam (201)564-2554
jose@hpsad.HP.COM (Jose Gomez-Rubio (SEED Student)) (08/16/90)
I have a Perstor PS180-16FN running in combo with a Segate ST-251-1 28ms hard drive giving me 78M of storage. It's a pretty zippy setup. Real easy to setup. Highly recommended. -- jose@hpsad.hp.com