mbaker@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (Matthew Baker) (05/29/91)
Greetings all! I'm looking for some information on the available host adapters for the ST, and also driver s/w. Currently I am running a Megafile 30 adapter board and an NEC D3142 drive. Someone I know is looking for an RLL controller to talk to an RLL CDC wren, and I want to sell my controller to this person. This places me in a difficult position: I need to find a new controller. My current unit took me 3 months and untold hassles with certain Oz atari techs, and I don't really want to try this again. An well, I have my eyes on another 3142, with which I hope to add a minix filesystem to my machine. Thus, I am seeking a hostadapter which will run RLL : the only possibilites seem to me to be: ICD + Adaptec 4000A. Supra. (is this ACSI <-> RLL or ACSI <-> SCSI???) Berkley Microsystems. (again, to what?? RLL? SCSI?) Are there other hostadapters available?? Are they any good?? Costs?? Please, being hereunder in Oz, can I have some addresses for the _manufacturer_ or a dealer that will export here? With regards to driver s/w, I understand that the Atari HDI will not support more than one drive per LUN. - how about the Supra/ICD/Berkley drivers? How about Claus' driver (CBHD) - cost, language, etc... Many thanks all. Matthew.