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From: john@bby-bc.UUCP (john)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: TECHNICAL DETAILS: Perstor RLL controllers
Summary: what about the controller interface?
Message-ID: <288@bby-bc.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 88 03:18:44 GMT
References: <243@octopus.UUCP>
Organization: Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
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In article <243@octopus.UUCP>, pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann) writes:
> Mark Fife (VP of ???) at Perstor read my RLL articles on the net and was kind
> enough to send me their official press releases, and some additional technical
> info. Based on an analysis of that info, I am writing two articles: this one,
> <good article on perstor controllers>

There seem to be two classes of Perstor controller according to your
article; is one obselete now?

In their ads the controller seems to be a pc/xt type - do they have
a 16 bit at controller?

What does the controller look like to the operating system - does it
pretend to have twice as many tracks (or heads) or does software have
to know there are up to 34 sectors/track?  I realize they probably
provide software for dos but it would be real nice to be able to
drop it into an AT unix box and have work (I know - probably too much
to hope for).

Thanks for another good article.