Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!athene!pcg From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: EISA Disk Controllers Message-ID: Date: 18 Feb 91 21:03:38 GMT References: <43779@ut-emx.uucp> <1991Feb13.173636.3599@scuzzy.in-berlin.de> Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 29 Nntp-Posting-Host: odin In-reply-to: src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de's message of 13 Feb 91 17:36:36 GMT On 13 Feb 91 17:36:36 GMT, src@scuzzy.in-berlin.de (Heiko Blume) said: src> pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes: pcg> Your best chance IMNHO is to get an Adaptec EISA controller and pcg> some nice HP or Imprimis 600MB/1.2GB disk with SCSI-2 and synchronous pcg> mode support. src> perhaps the wren runner would be more suited, due to it's 10.6ms src> average seek time. i think they now have ~300 and ~600 MB models. Nit picking time: Imprimis, Seagate and Wren are really the same thing now. I was indeed thinking of the Imprimis WREN Roadrunner in my paragraph above. More precisely: Seagate is a drive manufacturer, Imprimis is (more or less) one of their divisions that they bought from CDC, and WREN (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and so on until they run out of roman numerals :->) is the main line of 5.25" drives manufactured and marketed by Seagate's Imprimis division. Other suitable drives may be the Fujitsu 2263a and a whole load of others. But HP and Seagate/Imprimis/WREN are especially highly regarded. For information on SCSI drives look at the mac and next newsgroups, where they are constantly debated. -- Piercarlo Grandi | ARPA: pcg%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk