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From: uejio@lll-lcc.llnl.gov (Jeremy Y. Uejio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Tulin 50 meg HD
Keywords: : HD, Inexpensive
Message-ID: <2033@lll-lcc.llnl.gov>
Date: 17 Oct 88 19:01:39 GMT
References: <8@aicchi.UUCP>
Reply-To: uejio@lll-lcc.llnl.gov (Jeremy Y. Uejio)
Organization: Lab Comp Ctr, Lawrence Laboratory, Livermore Ca
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In article <8@aicchi.UUCP> dbb@aicchi.UUCP (Ben Burch ) writes:
>Well, I ordered the 50 meg drive kit that Tulin Corp., San Jose CA was
>advertising in Computer Shopper.  The kit arrived after a delay of less than 10

I picked up the Tulin drives two days after I ordered it.

>The assembly instructions
>were adequate but required several readings before all steps were clear.  One
>step required that the activity LED be clipped from the controller board and
>that the wires from the front panel LED be slipped over it's leads, but the
>leads were so short that soldering was required.

I had the same problem but managed to connect the LEDs without
soldering.

>Curiously, the system shipped
>with it was unable to bring up the disk, but a stock copy of system 6.0, with
>their formatter, was quite happy to initialize it. 

I didn't have any problems with their formatter.  Infact their
formatter seemed to support a variety of drives.

>Also on the distribution
>disk was a SCSI accelerator INIT.  This does not work.  Don't use it.  In my
>case, it would freeze the system during multi-file copies.

Again,  I didn't have any problems with this INIT although I'm
running system 5.0. 

All in all I'm happy with my Tulin Drive although it seems just a
bit slow.  The specs say that the avg. access time is 85 ms but
it doesn't seem that slow so it's probably wrong.

BTW I paid $640.39 including tax.  A real steal for 50 MB!


				jeremy

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