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From: gordon@boulder.Colorado.EDU (GORDON ALLEN R)
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Date: 13 Sep 89 15:54:27 GMT
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In article <4793@brains.UUCP> jeff_pyne%brains@iisat.UUCP writes:
>SCSI Vs. PERSTOR
>                  I am considering the purchase of either: a) The Miniscribe
>3085 (71 Meg, 17ms) with the PS180-16F controller by
>   PERSTOR.
> or b) The Seagate ST296N (80 Meg, 28ms) with seagates SCSI controller.
>
>  Is anyone well versed in either of these drives or drives of a similar
>size/quality? Is the PERSTOR controller compatible with most software? The
>drive/controller is to be used on a 10MHz AT compatible. Any help is
>appreciated. 
>--
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I've been using the PERSTOR controllers with the 3085 drive for a couple of years now.  I have had some problems with the controllers but Perstor and especiallyTED BUCK their support engineer have been really eager to help and correct the
problems.  The only problems I have experienced recently is that occasionally
when a file is being read, the drive will buzz momentarily and then proceed.  I
believe this has something to do with the error detection and correction circuitry on the perstor board.  For the most part, it does its job.  The 3085 when 
formatted using the perstor board has nearly 130 MB.  

Other things:  Spinrite does not work very well.  The version of Speedstor that
I have does do low level or single track and sector formatting with the perstor
board.  These problems may be corrected with current versions of the board and
the software.

Regards

Allen Gordon