Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls58!mlord
From: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Looking into a Perstor 180-16FN drive controller
Message-ID: <6004@bwdls58.bnr.ca>
Date: 11 Mar 91 19:17:35 GMT
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Sender: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca
Reply-To: mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord)
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In article ... opr_fowler@mcis2.enet.dec.com (John Fowler) writes:
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<I'd like some opinions on the Perstor 180-16FN drive controller
<preferable from people who are using it in their machines.
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<I have a 286 with a single Maxtor XT2190 hard drive getting 159mb
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<Where is the best place to buy this controller from and for how much?

I bought one in Aug/1990 from Hard Drives International for US $199.

It works great on my Miniscribe 3650, and even on my (unsupported) PRIAM 185.

In your case, the Maxtor 2190 listed as a "compatible" drive, and using all
1224 cylinders you'd get a capacity of 291Meg instead of 159Meg.  This comes
at the expense of having to put up with reduced throughput, since they do not
do any on-card buffering .. best interleave is 3:1, althought since there 
are more sectors per track, this works out to be equivalent to about 2:1 MFM.
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