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in article <293@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>, grieggs@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (John T. Grieggs) says:
 
> In article <6337@brl-smoke.ARPA> geoffs@brl-smoke.ARPA (Geoffrey Sauerborn ) writes:
>>	I am trying to find out who makes hard disks for the ST. (Other
>>than the first two (Atari & SUGART?).
>......
> seem quite happy with the results.  The only drawbacks to going generic
> are lack of support, and the need to forage for both hardware and software
> to make it look nice and work.

Berkeley Micro System's Chris Rodin is more than happy to answer any
questions you may have about the BMS-1000 DMA-to-SCSI interface.  We
recently had trouble getting both an ST251 and a cartridge hard disk drive
to work together using the BMS-1000 and an Adaptec ACB4000.  Chris finally
set us straight and the whole thing hums along nicely.  I rate BMS's
support very high.  And it comes with software (very NICE software, I may
add...).

Making it look nice is dependent on how well you forage  :-)

> Personally, I like the Astra, largly due to the packaging.  20meg + 1meg
> floppy, in the space of a tall floppy, with no power rat.  I would like
> to have more space, tho.

I think Astra makes ugly products (home made ones usually look better!) but
then that's a matter of personal choice.

> Rumor has it that PC-Ditto will work with a hard disk, but I have not
> seen it done yet.

PC-Ditto works great on the first partition of my hard disk.  I don't use
the hard disk to boot, but it can be done.

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