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From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Supra hard drives
Message-ID: <355@bdt.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 88 21:53:39 GMT
References: <6944@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <4730022@hpvcla.HP.COM>
Reply-To: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA
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I'm sort of amazed that there are so many people recommending Supra
Drives.   I must have had a unique experience, but oddly with all the
ST hard drives we use at BDT, the *only* drives that have ever given
us trouble have been the Supra Drives and an Astra Drive.   Even
the Atari drive, an original developers SH204, has worked without
failure (althoough I expect it will die someday soon becuase it
has a Seagate ST225 inside).  We have many BMS 100 drives (34.5 MB),
2 Supra Drives, 1 Astra Drive, and 1 SH204 (all 20MB).   Both Supras
have failed more than once - each time it has been the Supra interface
board.   The Astra drive completely went away and it had to be
replaced with a BMS set-up.
-- 
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