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From: rosenkra@convex.com (William Rosencranz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: megafile 44 for backups
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Date: 23 Oct 90 14:58:25 GMT
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i have a mega4 with megafile 60 and am considering getting a megafile 44
as another disk and for backups. i have several questions which would be
nice to have answered before i shell out the $$$. i run ahdx 3.01 or
whatever is current (6 mo ago). i just realized that the carts at developer
prices are only marginally more expensive than floppy disks and will save
my floppy from wearing down every 12 months :-). still using TOS 1.2...

1) is there any problem with setting LUN on the megafile 44 (the 60 has 
a nice little cover on top to get at the DIP switches) to daisychain these
two together?

2) is there a significant speed difference in disk access, either relative
to each other, or due to adding another LUN (i.e. will the 44 perform
comparably to the 60 and will adding the 44 to the system slow down the 60
for any reason)? what is the access speed on the 44? i believe the 60 is
probably 65 ms or so.

3) tape is cheaper than the 44, at least the media itself. are there any
streaming tape systems i can just plug into the 60's DMA port and merrily
make backups (with proper s/w, of course) instead? i don't want to fiddle
too much with h/w (no soldering :-).

4) will i need to change drivers (ahdx 3.01) to accomplish this? if so,
what will i need?

unrelated, does anyone have anything to say about the wuztek grayscale
monitors?

any response will be helpful.

thanx...


-bill
rosenkra%c1yankee@convex.com
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