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From: morash@ug.cs.dal.ca (Dave Morash)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Bernoulli box on a 386
Summary: Bernoulli on a Compaq 386/33
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Date: 4 Oct 90 22:38:24 GMT
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In article <1681@software.software.org> cox@software.org (Guy Cox) writes:
>Has anyone in netland put a 2x20 Bernoulli Box on a 386 class machine?
>How fast can I expect to run it. Should I make sure that the machine has
>programable bus waits etc. to run with the XT vintage controller card?

I've worked with a 2x20 Bernoulli Box on a Compaq 386/33 with no problems
other than the box occasionally falls asleep. As for speed wellit seems
on par with an ST225, but thenI was using the Bernoulli to run SAS (which
has to be the most disk intensive thing I've ever seen!)
I don't know of any thing that would prevent you from just dropping in
the controller and start working (well you need to load the driver :)  

Good luck on trying to find cartridges! 

>Guy O. Cox, Jr.  
>Software Productivity Consortium.
>2214 RockHill Rd
>Herndon, VA 22090
>703-742-7219
>cox@software.org


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