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From: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard disc for the Amiga 500
Message-ID: <1634@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 15:45:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: gryphon.1634
Posted: Mon Sep 21 15:45:16 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 24-Sep-87 01:25:07 EDT
References: <658@amnesix.liu.se>
Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow)
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In article <658@amnesix.liu.se> uda@amnesix.liu.se (Ulf Dahlen) writes:
>I would appreciate any advice from you Amiga-hackers out there on
>what to think of when buying a hard disc for the Amiga 500.

Reliability, proper handling of the expansion architecture, and speed for
starters.


>Is 20Meg really enough?

Can you afford more? If so begin to think at 40megs. And soon enough that
will be stiflingly small.

>Is there any specific drive manufacturer with
>good/bad reputation? 

I have both a Supra and a MAS-20. The Supra's faster. It has a couple problems
though. It won't autoconfigure correctly with a Starboard 2 inboard of it. It
wants to be closest to the Amiga. And when I first brought it up it had a lot
of error problems. That has gone away recently partly due to a new driver (That
doesn't work for David Joiner's drive...). The MAS-20 is a little slow. It is 
much quieter. it is bigger. (The 3.5" Miniscribe in the Supra really screams
when seeking...)

>Any problem with interfacing?  etc....

I've tried to add a second randomly chosen drive to the Supra. It didn't want
to work. That may have been the SCSI to ST506 converter I have - WD1003SCS.
Other than that note the inboard outboard problem above. New driver to cure that
is due RSN. It is a SW problem. (The original driver for the Supra didn't
care.)


>Please reply by mail.

Sorry - mail doesn't seem to work for me here very well. Over half the messages
I send out come back. I does the best I can with available resources and time.

>/Ulf
>__________
>Ulf Dahlen


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