jerry@polygen.uucp (Jerry Sheckel) (03/27/91)
gt3408a@prism.gatech.EDU (DYKES,DAVID PRESTON) writes: > > Question number two... Do any of ya'll have any experience with >Perstor controllers and a 386 Unix? Good, bad ugly? As a dirt poor >student these controllers sound to good to be true. > I'm in the same boat (dirt poor student), and I have a Perstor controller. I'm using it with a Maxtor 1224 (160MB MFM) formatted to about 285MB. It works great, albeit not too fast. The controller has no cache, and optimum performance (on my system) is achieved at 3:1 interleave. I've used it with SCO Open Desktop and ISC 2.2.1. I've had no problems. The only warning I have is that you shouldn't mark bad tracks using the Perstor- supplied low-level formatting program, or ISC chokes in mkfs during installation. Use the ISC bad tracker instead. > > -Dave > -- +-------------------+----------------------+---------------------------------+ | JERRY J. SHEKHEL | POLYGEN CORPORATION | When I was young, I had to walk | | Drummers do it... | Waltham, MA USA | to school and back every day -- | | ... In rhythm! | (617) 890-2175 | 20 miles, uphill both ways. | +-------------------+----------------------+---------------------------------+ | ...! [ princeton mit-eddie bu sunne ] !polygen!jerry | | jerry@polygen.com | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+