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From: depeche@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Acme Instant Dehydrated Boulder Kit)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Standard Hard Drive Interfaces?
Message-ID: <43@bart.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 17 Nov 90 23:25:40 GMT
References: <1990Nov16.003735.14049@contact.uucp> <1990Nov17.032431.25272@cs.odu.edu>
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>In article <1990Nov16.003735.14049@contact.uucp> rrwood@contact.uucp (roy wood) writes:
>>
>>Someone posted an ad for used ST equipment and made mention of "a Supra Hard
>>Drive Interface" and a Seagate hard drive.  From this I infer that Supra
>>markets an interface that allows one to use a nice cheap IBM style hard-drive
>>on one's ST.  Is this correct?  And if it is so cheap to get set up with the
>>interface and drive, why would anyone choose anything else for his or her ST?
>> 

Well, I bought a supra 30mb hard disk, and it is a box, with interface and
power supply, and inside it is, lo and behold, a SEAGATE hard disk
mechanism.

And in fact, the documentation lists my "supra serial number" and my
"seagate serial number". 

just thought you'd like to know.
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|S. Alan Ezust                                |  depeche@cs.mcgill.ca       |
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