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From: thaler@speedy.cs.wisc.edu (Maurice Thaler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PERSTOR PS 180-16F ARRL Controller
Keywords: 90% Increase on MFM or RLL Hard Disk Drive
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Date: 27 Dec 88 18:28:02 GMT
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I have dealt with this company and they have been pretty good, the card
will work with that drive, but they have had some problems w/ certain
386 computers (Mine is a Dell 310 20Mhz) that had conficts with this
card. They claim that the bugs have been worked out on the latest
version of the card. The performance is pretty good, but not as good
speed wize as the Adaptec card which works better with Minscribe's than
the Seagates. The Perstore requires a 1:3 interleave while the Adaptect
gives you a 1:1 interleave (if you have a fast enough bus to keep up). I
am still waiting for Perstor to deliver on their yet to be released high
speed version which has on the card disk caching which will allow for
1:1 interleave and keep the 1.9 ARLL expansion. I like the people, their
r & d has been a little slow. If and when I get the HI_SPEED 16 bit
card, I will report to this newsgroup.


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