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From: plonka@carroll1.cc.edu (Dave Plonka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Why BridgeBoards are so popular
Message-ID: <1981@carroll1.cc.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 90 01:39:03 GMT
References: <4420@munnari.oz.au> <32431@auc.UUCP>
Reply-To: plonka@carroll1.cc.edu (Dave Plonka)
Organization: Carroll College-Waukesha, WI
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In article <32431@auc.UUCP> rar@auc.UUCP (Rodney Ricks) writes:
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>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.

You are confusing a bus standard (SCSI), with a device standard (ST506.)
It is very possible that a SCSI drive could have an ST506 controller on
board.(In fact, I suspect some of the slower Seagate SCSIs may have just
that.) In fact, SCSI drives must have some sort of controller on board.
ESDI, IDE, ST-506, etc are controller or device standards. SCSI is a bus
which requires a Host adapter, not a controller, the SCSI device does the
rest.

>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.
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>Rodney

True, for speed, (on the amiga side, that is) your best bet would be to
configure the harddrive on the Amiga side.

Dave.
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