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From: Mr._Peter_Lawrence_Jackson@mtsg.ubc.ca
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: GTS100 disk drives
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Date: 7 Nov 88 20:56:40 GMT
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On Nov 1 1988, Jim McCabe asks...
>Does anyone have any experience with the Indus GTS100 disk drives?
>Are they more or less reliable than their Atari SF314 counterparts?
>.....
 
I have owned a GTS100 for about 3 months now - its manufactured by another
company now (I think its called something like Future Systems), but I am
pretty sure its the same drive as the INDUS.  I have been quite happy with it.
It is quieter, smaller, and it seems faster than the Atari drive.  It also has
a couple of extra features: As well as a busy LED, it has a power LED and a two
digit LED track indicator.
 
On the negative side, it *seems* that the drive has to be powered on before
the computer is booted and a boot disk is inserted.  Previously I would 
power up my system all at once by switching on the power bar.  However I
discovered that when I did this with the GTS100 drive, the disk track 
containing the directory would get screwed up - making several files on the
disk unaccessible.  I have not yet discovered whether this is a problem with
my GTS100 drive, or is endemic to the whole batch.  The problem was eliminated
when I turned the GTS100 on before turning on the ST.