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From: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MFM vs RLL drives
Message-ID: <5136@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 30 Oct 88 07:00:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.5136
References: <8810190228.AA12474@baldwin.csri.toronto.edu> <1143@lakesys.UUCP>
Reply-To: jesup@cbmvax.UUCP (Randell Jesup)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <1143@lakesys.UUCP> mikes@lakesys.UUCP (Mike Shawaluk) writes:
>Well, you could always buy an Adaptec 4070 SCSI to ST506 controller, and
>connect it to the SCSI port of your 2090A, but that seems incredibly
>inefficient (not to say redundant), since the 2090A already has ST506!  Of
>course, the 4070 card can be had for $100 to $130, depending upon the source,
>and that amount of $$ doesn't seem too bad for another 60 meg of hard disk
>space!

	Just a word of advice, if you do get a Adaptec 4070:  with the
current driver software, you must format the drive/adaptec on another machine
for 512 byte sectors before using it on the Amiga.  I'd make sure you had
access to a controller that can format the adaptec before buying one (note
that some of the third-party SCSI controllers are made for use with
Adaptecs, or have software available to do the initial format.)

-- 
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Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup