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From: stephan@kontron.UUCP (Stephan W. Wendl)
Newsgroups: net.micro.atari
Subject: Re: Atari ST Hard Disks
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Date: Thu, 13-Feb-86 13:38:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 13 13:38:42 1986
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> Anyone had experience with the Haba hard disks?  Are they more
> reliable than their C compiler?  Any other hard disks for the ST?

Yes, the 20MB hard disk from ATARI for developers. It upgrades the
ST to a realy useful tool. The mechanical design is slightly poor
(it comes in a 12" long housing, cable connector on the back, but 
the cable to hook it to the 'keyboard' is just 10" long) Inside
there is a converter from ATARI hdisk interface (sort of sasi)
to a full SASI with adaptec controller and seagate 212 harddisk.

They add the installable hard disk driver and on the hard disk
(already formated) comes a test program which reads from a file
data to be flushed on the screen (digitized from a camera in B/W)
The speed is impressing ~4 pictures/second. ( the public domain
ramdisk driver was even slower <3 p/s)