Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!unido!pfm!nadia!jester!root
From: root@jester.UUCP (Michael Haeuptle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A.L.F.
Message-ID: <38@jester.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 89 19:38:11 GMT
References: <17595@louie.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: root@jester.UUCP (Michael Haeuptle)
Organization: - Blue Peter Computer Systems -
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In article <17595@louie.udel.EDU> joe@bryans.scc.com writes:
>
>I just read in the recent issue of Amazing Computer that there is a new
>hard drive controller out on the market called A.L.F.! (Amiga Loads 

>Anyone know more info about this?


In Germany, there is a Software with this name. It is simply a hardisk-device
which can access a ST-506 Drive with an OMTI 5527 (or the RLL version) and
a ST11R (Seagte Contoller; but it is lousy slow). 

To connect the controller to the Amy expansion bus, you have to make an
adapter which does the adressing conversions (a german computer magazine
developped this cuircuit and a lot of commercial vendors use this adapter...)

The alf.device has a max. speed of appr. 350 KB/s with an epson 20 MB MFM drive 
and runs since one month without trouble beside my Amy..


Hope this helps you..

		Michael.

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