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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Cheap Hard Disks for A2000.
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Date: 20 Apr 88 17:13:32 GMT
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In article <18700029@silver> backstro@silver.bacs.indiana.edu writes:
>Can somebody tell me how many HDisks the A2090 can support?  Also what are
>some cheap prices on SCSI compatible 50 meg harddrives?

I believe the numbers are two (2) ST506 compatible drives and seven (7)
SCSI drives. Note that the ST506 drives cannot have more than 8 heads
due to some firmware limitations on the card. 

As for prices, the price of an imbedded SCSI drive is currently about
$11 to $12 per Megabyte for fast drives (< 30 Msec). Less for slower
drives (>= 40 Msec). So for a 50 meg drive you can expect to be charged
somewhere between 500 and 600 dollars depending on how fast it is.
Note that if you buy Seagate drives they have a slow and a fast version
(usually indicated by -0 (slow) or -1 (fast) after the model number)


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