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From: blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Sync. SCSI drives for A3000
Keywords: Quantums worth it?
Message-ID: <2036@esunix.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jul 90 20:57:41 GMT
Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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X-Local-Date: 2 Jul 90 13:57:41 PDT

My A3000 should be here within a few days, and I'm thinking about
upgrading it to a synchronous SCSI drive since the A3000 controller
supports synchronous SCSI.

A few questions:

1) What drives are known to work? If I understand correctly, the
"smaller" Quantum drives (40, 80, and 105 meg) do not support synchronous
mode, but the larger ones (120, 170, and 210 meg) do. Is this correct?
Are there other 3.5" synchronous SCSI drives worth looking at?

2) What kind of transfer rate can I expect with a synchronous drive?
Over 1M/sec, close to 2M/sec?

3) Has anyone actually done this? What do you think of it? Is it worth
it?

If you'll e-mail me your answers, I'll post a complete summary of the
responses.
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Blaine Gardner @ Evans & Sutherland  580 Arapeen Drive, SLC, Utah 84108
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