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In article <1992Oct16.221402.15428@redsun.pps.rain.com> don@redsun.pps.rain.com (Donald C. Currie) writes:
>mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
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>>In <1bipbaINNcs@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> joneswd@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (William D. Jones) writes:
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>>>Is there anyone out there who owns a Bernoulli removable hard drive  
>>>set-up?  I am planning on purchasing one in the future (hopefully) and was  
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>one.  I plan on using it as a hard drive, not as a mass storage device.
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I recently purchased the HDI kit.  One correction on a previous post;
the kit is $500 not $400.  Also the 360M they advertise supposes a
2:1 compression using the Stacker 2.0 software.  

The SCSI controller packaged with the drive is made by Rancho technologies.
It is an 8-bit memory mapped controller.  It works fine for me under DOS.
If you want a different controller, get an Adaptec 1542B.  IOmega has
drivers for adaptec.  (I am returning the Ultrastor 14F I bought from HDI
because there are no drivers from Ultrastor for the Bbox).

I was not impressed with the IOmega technical support.  I talked with three
different people there and none of them knew anything about the Rancho
card except that they put their own ROM into the card.  If I can't get the
programming info I need for the card, then I either have to return the
drive, or buy an Adaptec controller. (Oops, I forgot to mention that I
want the programming info for a Linux driver for the card.)

Sigh.

David Cuka

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