Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!wucs1!wuphys!lel From: lel@wuphys.UUCP (Lyle E. Levine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Info about Overdrive Pacific Periphials ? Message-ID: <578@wuphys.UUCP> Date: 19 Oct 88 18:04:23 GMT References: <44798@neabbs.UUCP> <3270@hubcap.UUCP> Reply-To: lel@wuphys.UUCP (Lyle E. Levine) Organization: Physics Dept., Washington U. in St. Louis Lines: 63 In article <3270@hubcap.UUCP> disd@hubcap.UUCP (Gary Heffelfinger) writes: ->From article <44798@neabbs.UUCP>, by amichel@neabbs.UUCP (MICHEL LANGEREIS): ->> ->> ->> Since everyone is talking about controllers and harddrives ->> these days can anyone tell me something about the ->> Overdrive standard configuration (Controller + 30Mb Seagate) ? ->Well, I can tell you about the Overdrive paired with an ST157N (~50M). ->It performed really well in the time that I had it. I had one in my now ->dead B2000. Before it (the 2000) went POP I was enjoying it very much. ->Keep in mind that I'm easy to please, but I thought that it performed ->smoothly, and was pretty fast. After hearing all the talk on the net ->about how slow DOS 1.2 is with hard disks, I wasn't expecting much in ->the way of speed. If this is slow, I can't *wait* to see FFS! -> ->However, since I only had mine a few days before my 2000 died, and I ->haven't determined if the Overdrive had anything to do with said death, ->I may not be the best one to talk about it. A friend of mine here at ->Clemson is running the same setup. Perhaps he'll comment. Robert? -> I have had an Overdrive controller for about 2 1/2 months (1 week working). This is a long story so be warned! we purchased a Seagate 157N drive and an Overdrive controller for our 3Meg 2000 here in our lab. The 157N wouldn't work with the controller since the drive's byte count disagreed with the older 157N specs (I'm told they have changed and this has been reported to Pacific Peripherals). With help from Pac. Periph. Tech. support, we got this working OK. This is when I found out that the controller was bad. Call PP again, they say "send it back and we'll send you a new one...". We sent it back and waited... and waited... and waited... Call... call... call............. Excuses used by Pacific Peripherals: 1) We're fixing it! (huh? where's my new one?) 2) The girl forgot to ship it, I'll do it myself today. 3) Wasn't it shipped? Let me check.... 4) I'm sorry, we're moving right now.... 5) etc....... The local dealer had to order a new one for me. Well, now that I have it and got it installed, formatted, and partitioned, it seems to work ok. I do get more frequent crashes than on my system at home (only diff. is that at home I have a 2090 and a 251 drive). Also, my 640x400x4 bit plane anims look more jerky on the lab computer. Any ideas on why? The drive+controller does seem quite fast. I have no complaints about the performance. Also, I know someone else on the net that has 2 A2000's in his lab and both have Overdrives with 157N's. They have worked perfectly so far (same age as ours). ========== IBM is a Division of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation "their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws." - "So Long And Thanks For All The Fish" Lyle Levine: Paths -> ihnp4!wuphys!lel Best way: (314)889-6379 uunet!wucs!wuphys!lel