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From: turner@imagen.UUCP (D'arc Angel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: addresses in the U.S.
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Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 12:19:04 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 19 12:19:04 1986
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> I am interested in buying a hard disk controller board for the ST. I want to
> attach a standard drive (between 20MB and 80MB).
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> I seem to remember that a while back somebody posted an article saying that
> Supra had bought out such an interface.
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> So, what I am after :-
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>Can someone in the U.S. mail me (or reply to this article) with the address of

I've waited to post this till I got everything involved but I've seen enough to
convince me that the whole thing will work as promised. (deep breath taken)

About a month ago I went up to Berekely MicroSystems to buy one of their hard
disk controllers and adaptor boards, I have been happy as a clam with them 
since. First what are they; 

	the controller board is a standard Adaptec 4000 hard disk controller
	the price BMS asked was in line with the street price (~ $115)

	(this is the exciting part) the adaptor board converts the atari DMA
	format to SCSI (~ $135)

so whats so exciting ? 2 things; 1) the controller board has a real time clock
builtin with battery backup builtin and 2) GET THIS the new release of the HDX
program (which i am still waiting for (you listening chris ???)) supports 2
count them 2 hard disks per controller. to the best of my knowledge neither
Supra nor atari can do that, in fact i believe that you need the mythical 
octaplex to support more than 1 HD.

now for the bad new; the clock program needs to be run as an accessory rather
than in the auto folder (they tell me that they are working on this) and i 
still haven't seen the new HDX driver so i can't tell you for sure that it
works. however everything that i've gotten from them worked as promised so
far so that i have no reason to believe that the clock.acc and 2 drive mod
won't work.

their address is:
Berekely MicroSystems
1107 El Centro Ave.
Oakland CA 94602
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