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From: rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Why BridgeBoards are so popular
Summary: You get a bridgeboard, but you lose some speed.
Message-ID: <32431@auc.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 90 17:38:50 GMT
References: <4420@munnari.oz.au>
Reply-To: rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks)
Organization: Atlanta University Center, Atlanta, Ga.
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In article <4420@munnari.oz.au> ianr@mullian.ee.mu.OZ.AU (Ian ROWLANDS) writes:
>	After ringing some of the dealers around, I can now say why the XT
>and AT bridgeboards are so popular.
>...
>The reason - it's the same price to put the HD on the bridgeboard as to get
>a HD and controller for the Amiga. Don't know about anybody else, but this
>seems crazy to me.

Not all hard disks are the same.  What you would get for the Amiga would
almost certainly be a SCSI controller and hard drive.  For the bridgeboard, the
hard drives that they are talking about are the less expensive, but slower,
ST506 hard drives.

From all that I have heard and seen, SCSI drives are much faster.  Also, some
people on the net seem to be having speed problems with the Amiga side using
the hard drive on the bridgeboard.  This is above and beyond the expected speed
difference between SCSI and ST506 drives.

So it seems that you'll pay for the bridgeboard solution with a significant
loss of speed.

>				Ian

Rodney

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