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From: heasley@bu-ast.bu.edu (Jim Heasley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Perstor Controller & Intel 386 Unix?
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Date: 7 Aug 90 02:53:28 GMT
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I recently came across an ad for a disk controller from a company
named PERSTOR which claims to essentially double the amount of
information that can be stored on most standard disks. From what I can
gather from their flyer, they provide a controller which uses a special
encoding scheme and a replacement BIOS for the computer that understands
the mapping between standard disk types and their encoding.  They claim
to be Sco Xenix, Interactive Unix, and OS/2 compatible.  

I'm running Intel's (formerly Bell Technology) Unix 3.2.2 and would be
very interested to make a major upgrade to my disk storage for the very
modest price of a new controller (it seems too good to be true, in fact).  
However, I'm a bit nervous about buying the controller and discovering
that it's not compatible with the Intel kernel. Has anyone out there all
ready tried this and if so with what results?

Jim Heasley

Dept. of Astronomy
Boston University (on leave from U. Hawaii)

heasley@buast5.bu.edu