Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!wuarchive!emory!hubcap!dawill From: dawill@hubcap.clemson.edu (david williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Help! StarDrive woes Message-ID: <7387@hubcap.clemson.edu> Date: 9 Dec 89 02:13:40 GMT References: <7248@hubcap.clemson.edu> <7320@hubcap.clemson.edu> Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC Lines: 64 In article <7320@hubcap.clemson.edu>, rchampe@hubcap.clemson.edu (Richard Champeaux) writes: > In article <7314@hubcap.clemson.edu>, dawill@hubcap.clemson.edu (david williams) writes: > > I would take the stardrive interface over the supra for the 1000 any > > day of the week. My drive is actually a MiniScribe 8425S that my roomate > > got out of his old Supra 4 X 4. We quit using that interface because it > > was very slow, and was generating random errors. > > Being Dave's roommate, I feel I should comment on his comments. First, > the Supra wasn't any slower than the Microbotics, they both got about > 140k/s. Second, it worked fine for about a year and a half before it > started giving random errors. At that point I decided it was time for an > Amiga 2000 and a DMA controller with an 80Meg drive. Now I get ~650k/s. Yeah! > It was also one of the original Supras, although I had aquired the newer > software. > > > > > /'''''\ > > | o o | Dave Williams dawill@hubcap.clemson.edu > > | m | PeopleLink: SillyDave > > | \___/ | 'You think I'd really tell you what I'm up to?' > > \__U__/ "Hah! Finally! A real .sig file!" > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Hah! Dave's trying to put one over on all you nice people. This isn't a > real .signature, it's a fake one inserted by his terminal program. We haven't > figured out how to get the mailer to tack on a signature yet. > > Of course, Dave's going to kill me now. :-) > > Rich Champeaux (rchampe@hubcap.clemson.edu) Hah! Shows what you know! That signature is a clever fake, typed by me at one of our local computer center's terminals. Here is the real one, via my TimeSaver. (Not my terminal program) ------------------------------------------------------ /'''''\ Dave Williams | o o | dawill@hubcap.clemson.edu | m | PeopleLink: SillyDave | \___/ | Huh? What? Could you repeat the question? \__U__/ "Ha! I finally got a reallyyyyy greattttt .sig file!" Anyway, I stand corrected on the supra interface. I dunno, I was never impressed with the supra, it seemed cheezy. Know what I mean? What kind of performance is the real world getting out of the *latest* version of the supra? Does it mount with AmigaDOS mount, or still need the SupraMount? see above for signature stupid mailer won't let me post unless I include more text than the previous posting. Does this reek of idiocy, or what?