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From: mjd@doc.ic.ac.uk (Martin J Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: BMS-100, Adaptek 4000, Quantum 540 "feature"
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Date: Fri, 29-May-87 10:44:13 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 29 10:44:13 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 31-May-87 15:48:34 EDT
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Reply-To: mjd@doc.ic.ac.uk (Martin J Davies)
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK.
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Keywords: Interference, shielding

Having seen discussions on the BMS100 ACB4000A combination I thought I
would throw in my two cents worth.
Overall I am very impressed with both products, the two have been
sucessfully interfaced to an 8" Quantum Q2020 (20Mbyte) & Q2010 (10Mbyte)
Both these drives are SA1000 but with a bit of coaxing ( a little box that
converts the 34 way ACB4000 to a 50 way SA1000) they work very reliably 
and quickly.
I only have one or two gripes and would be interested to hear of ways around
them:-
1) I cannot leave any partition space free e.g. if I set up 10Mbye and 5Mbyte
the 5Mbyte partion grows to fill the remaining free blocks. This prohibits the 
use of one or two utilities that rely on 300K of free space to make the drive
bootable.
2) I cannot at present connect more than one SCSI devive to the BMS100, 
berkly say that soon they may have a new revision and a mod to do this.

P.S. If anyone has had any joy interfacing tape streamers to the SCSI port
I would like to hear. I have an Archive Corp Sidewinder (30MByte) and would 
dearly love to interface it to my ST

* Usual discliamer :- I have no connection etc.etc. ... satisfied customer