🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: comp.sys.atari.st
Article #32407

Supra drives (was Re: Atari warranty estimates...)

#32407
From: Warner Young
Date: Fri, 06 May 1988 19:43
19 lines
1570 bytes
In article <1718@alliant.Alliant.COM> rosenkra@alliant.UUCP (Bill Rosenkranz) writes:

>i wouldn't count on the Supra to be any more reliable than the atari. i know
>several people who have had problems with them, also. i have heard that
>the astra drives are built "like brick (fill-in-the-blanks)...", being
>almost hardened (mil spec)! if they use the same drivr mech and boards,
>i can't see how they could be any better, however, unless really packaged
>will (cooling, dust, shock mount, etc).

>-bill

	I, on the other hand, have a different story.  I bought one of the
20 Meg Supra drives, and it's working very well.  For a while there, I was
having the strangest problems with it, so I sent it in for repairs.  It
turned out to be interference (at least, all they did was shorten the DMA
cable, and it worked), and the person on the phone at Supra was very
helpful about everything.  All in all, I'm well pleased.

		- Warner Young
Technical Details
Message-ID: <3141@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!gatech!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!pasteur!zooey.Berkeley.EDU!c162-br
References: <19880504130143.5.CRAWLEY@FLIGHTLESS-WATERFOWL.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> <1718@alliant.Alliant.COM>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ukma!gatech!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!pasteur!zooey.Berkeley.EDU!c162-br
From: c162-br@zooey.Berkeley.EDU (Warner Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Supra drives (was Re: Atari warranty estimates...)
Message-ID: <3141@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu>
Date: 6 May 88 19:43:25 GMT
References: <19880504130143.5.CRAWLEY@FLIGHTLESS-WATERFOWL.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> <1718@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu
Reply-To: c162-br@zooey.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Warner Young)
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
Lines: 19