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Article #3031Re: Seagate SCSI drive (ST296N) and controller (ST01 and ST02)
From: Guy Lemieux
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 03:00
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 03:00
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In <3391@awdprime.UUCP> ron@woan (Ronald S. Woan) writes: >The before mentioned drive/controller combinations have been >advertised in Computer Shopper for ~$399. That's pretty good for an >83.9MB 28ms drive. So what's the catch? Do the controllers handle only >a single device, i.e. no daisy chaining? Is the 8-bit controller a >bottleneck on 16-bit busses? Anyone out there with one of these? The ST01 and ST02 host adaptors cost something like $40. They are very cheap and very SLOW. To top it off, even if you got a fast controller, The Seagate ST2xxN drives have a terrible transfer rate... somewhere around 250k/second. Don't do it. Invest some money into an IDE drive if you want a cheap price. Otherwise, get the AHA1542b and one of those CDC drives (Oh, Seagate bought out CDC, so they are now Seagate drives). Guy guy@contact.uucp
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!geac!contact!guy From: guy@contact.uucp (Guy Lemieux) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Seagate SCSI drive (ST296N) and controller (ST01 and ST02) Message-ID: <1990Sep7.030032.3295@contact.uucp> Date: 7 Sep 90 03:00:32 GMT References: <3391@awdprime.UUCP> Organization: Jet Penguin Lavatories Lines: 19