Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!rochester!rutgers!deimos!cseg!hcx!gmg From: gmg@hcx.uucp (Greg M. Garner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Microbotics Stardrive questions Summary: Get a supra... Message-ID: <1147@cseg.uucp> Date: 11 Nov 88 06:11:51 GMT References: <6080008@hpcupt1.HP.COM> Sender: netnews@cseg.uucp Organization: College of Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Lines: 36 I recently (Ok, Today is recently, right? :-) purchased a st277n scsi hardrive, and a supra scsi controller. Given that I see so many questions here on hard drives, I will ad my two cents. I am _VERY_ impressed with the supra controller, its construction, its manual, its performance, in short, everything about it. I am glad I decided to get this combination over the starboard scsi, as I have no complaints about Supra. The only thing I had even a small problem with was their startup sequence, but I chunked it, and wrote my own. To be fair, theirs would probably work if I had made dh0: larger then 1 meg. I hooked all the components up, and then turned them on, (with microbotics 2 meg), and all of it works perfect. The supraformat program is a dream, very well thought out. It even somehow (magic I guess :-) figured out that I had a st277n drive hooked up to it. The manual talks about how to install ffs, and the boot disk is even a 1.3 workbench disk. I am able to recommend this configuration to anyone owning an A1000 and looking for a harddrive. I also managed to get a 65 meg setup for less than 800 Clams, including blue label UPS shipping. The hard drive came from Lyco Computers, costing me in the end 464.00 with shipping. The Supra interface came directly from Supra, 205.00$$$. and a hard drive enclosure from wetek, for 90.00 rounds it out. Try it, you'll like it! /* I am not associated with any of these companies except as a satisfied customer. */ Greg Garner gmg@hcx.uucp USENET: ...!uunet!harris.cis.ksu.edu!hcx!gmg 501-442-4847