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From: guy@contact.uucp (Guy Lemieux)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Seagate SCSI drive (ST296N) and controller (ST01 and ST02)
Message-ID: <1990Sep7.030032.3295@contact.uucp>
Date: 7 Sep 90 03:00:32 GMT
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In <3391@awdprime.UUCP> ron@woan (Ronald S. Woan) writes:

>The before mentioned drive/controller combinations have been
>advertised in Computer Shopper for ~$399. That's pretty good for an
>83.9MB 28ms drive. So what's the catch? Do the controllers handle only
>a single device, i.e. no daisy chaining? Is the 8-bit controller a
>bottleneck on 16-bit busses? Anyone out there with one of these?

The ST01 and ST02 host adaptors cost something like $40.  They are very
cheap and very SLOW.  To top it off, even if you got a fast controller,
The Seagate ST2xxN drives have a terrible transfer rate... somewhere
around 250k/second.

Don't do it.  Invest some money into an IDE drive if you want a cheap
price.  Otherwise, get the AHA1542b and one of those CDC drives (Oh,
Seagate bought out CDC, so they are now Seagate drives).

Guy
guy@contact.uucp