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From: robert@hubcap.UUCP (Robert Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Info about Overdrive Pacific Periphials ?
Summary: Positive experiences with Overdrive + ST157N
Message-ID: <3302@hubcap.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 88 15:23:32 GMT
References: <44798@neabbs.UUCP> <3270@hubcap.UUCP>
Organization: Clemson University, Clemson, SC
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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).
>  [Generally positive comments deleted.]
> ->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?

OK, so I'm a little slow reading news these days.  I have the same
Overdrive hardcard configuration as Gary, the ST157N.  I don't have any
nifty transfer rate testing software, so I can only give you subjective
impressions.  If somebody wants to mail me some nifty testing software,
or for that matter just some ideas on how to measure performance, I'd be
interested in providing some `hard' data.

I have had absolutely zero problems with the system in the month or so
I've had it.  I'm still using 1.2, and my reaction to the allegedly slow
disk response is like Gary's:  ``This is slow?!''  I'm looking forward
to 1.3 and the FFS, but I'm happy enough with current performance that
I'll probably wait to get 1.3 until an ARP compatible with it is released.

I have some fairly large directories that get searched reasonably
frequently, like c: and bin and AmigaTeX fonts.  Maybe I'm just easy to
please, but I'm quite happy with the response I'm getting.

Speaking of AmigaTeX, allow me to break into an advertisement.  Tomas
Rokicki has done a remarkable job with the TeX port, the previewer, and
the NEC P6 driver (he's probably done a wonderful job with the other
drivers, but I don't own any of them).  I never would have believed I
could get such quality from any dot matrix printer.  If you're
interested in producing quality output on your Amiga and you're not hung
up on WYSIWYG you owe it to yourself to check out AmigaTeX.

Disclaimers:  I'm just a happy customer of Pacific Peripherals, Seagate,
and Radical Eye Software (AmigaTeX).  I have no business relationship
with any of them.  I've never met Tomas, but I'd like to.  And, no, I
don't speak for Clemson University (I'm not sure anybody does).

-- 
Robert Reynolds                 uucp: ... !gatech!hubcap!robert
CS Dept, Clemson Univ.    	ARPA: ROBERT@TECNET-CLEMSON.ARPA
phone: (803) 656-5884           inet: robert@hubcap.clemson.edu