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Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Triangle turbo hard drives and MINIX
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Date: 2 Aug 89 09:35:13 GMT
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>What I would like to know from the net is anyones
>experiences with hard drives made by Triangle and this drive in
particular.
>Also, a major factor IS IT ST MINIX COMPATIBLE????

I have an early Triangle 40Mb Turbo drive, and it doesn't even come close
to working with Minix.  This is the reason I've had to give up using Minix
- I can't handle working from floppies, and I can't afford another disk
drive.

I spent 3 months trying to get the disk specs out of the manufacturers so
that I could hack on the wini driver and maybe get it going, but they
wouldn't let me have them.

Unless anything has changed recently, I would suggest you steer clear of
Triangle drives.  Tell them I said so!  Point out that my exact words were
"I'm trying to do you a favour here guys - if I don't do this, Minix users
won't buy your product."

   -- Hugh