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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Perstor 16-bit controller Any Info?
Message-ID: <862@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 6 Oct 89 14:26:47 GMT
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Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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  I ran the PS-180 (hard disk only) with TS4096 and ST251 drives. It
worked well, but it did not work with Xenix or UNIX. The version which
does both hard and floppy is supposed to do this.

  I *believe* that the track buffering in this controller is done by
software in the BIOS. That means it will run 1:1 for DOS, but probably
2:1 for UNIX.

  I only ran it for a few days, but I was reading and writing files for
24 hours of that, with a batchfile driving a database prog, and I didn't
have any problems.

-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon