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From: cthulhu@athena.mit.edu (Jim Reich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ASDG SDP
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Date: 10 Jan 88 20:35:58 GMT
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In article <1281@vu-vlsi.UUCP> cheung@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Wilson Cheung) writes:

>There is an incredible deluge of alternate SCSI disk drive set ups for the Amiga
>at very very attractive prices.
Yes, but the SDP should utterly blow them all away.  It's just too bloody
expensive!  Apparently they showed a working SDP at AmiExpo...

>	I guess in about a month or two if SDP doesn't come out I might jus
>settle down with Pacific Peripheral's hardware.  They have a nice 40 meg Hard
>drive and SCSI board for $1295 that's Zorro I compatible.  Does anyone know
>if Pacific Peripheral's SCSI card will work in a mini-Rack C?
As of last time I talked to them, Pacific had discontinued their Zorro I
support.  Their card was designed to go in their "Cage II" 2 slot system 
($200ish) BUT they're now redesigning their SubSystem to work with the 1000,
giving it A2000 slots (no bridge slots, though... need the Turbo Tower or
the 2000 and 1 to do that)  Should all be done by Feb.  Has a slightly faster
transfer rate than the 2090 and no overscan problem.

Does anyone know anything about the Phoenix harddrive controllers?  They claim
to have a 4Mbit/s transfer rate -- more than twice the speed of the 2090
if I'm not mistaken...
							-- Jim