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From: ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: hard drives
Message-ID: <1990Dec16.144249.12128@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 16 Dec 90 14:42:49 GMT
References: <1990Dec14.014112.6251@ecst.csuchico.edu> <1990Dec14.172830.14752@uvm.edu>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In article <1990Dec14.172830.14752@uvm.edu> pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram) writes:
>Raymond-Protection: enabled
>
>> david@bdt.COM (David Beckemeyer) writes:
> 
>> - Perhaps most would agree, but I don't agree at all.  If you want 
>> - the best, get the Berkeley Microsystems BMS-200 host adapter.  
>> - Nothing else touches it in terms of getting the signals and timing
>> - right.
>> -
>> - ICD may be much more widely available, but that doesn't make it the 
>> - best.
   
We have an Excabyte 8 mm tape drive (2 Gbyte). The BMS-200 we ordered
did not work with it (and it took > 3 months to arrive). The ICD
board works fine. Werner

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