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From: clee@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Chang L. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: double disk capacity, Perstor ADRT controller any good?
Message-ID: <280bace6.1cc8@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 17 Apr 91 02:03:18 GMT
Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407
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I've come across a seemingly inexpensive way of increasing harddisk
capacity.  The Perstor PS180-16FN is a 16 bit controller advertised
as being able to almost double the capacity of MFM drives (e.g. ST251
from 40MB to approximately 72MB.)  This is done with a proprietory
data encoding scheme.

The dealer quoted me $200 for the card.  Has anyone experience with 
this product, or can point me to reviews?


Thanks