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From: GIGUERE@WATCSG.BITNET (Eric Giguere)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Hard drive questions...
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Date: 16 Feb 89 23:27:57 GMT
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No doubt this question has been hashed and rehashed on the net, but
here goes:  I'm seriously considering buying a hard drive for my 2000.
Purely for the Amiga side.  I intend to purchase the Commodore
controller.  Now the big question:  should I go SCSI or ST-506?  I've
had conflicting opinions on this one.  I can purchase the same setup
that's found in the 2000HD for about CA$1000, which is reasonable for
my budget -- it's a 28 ms ST-506 drive, 40 megs.  Is it true that a
SCSI drive with FFS installed is much faster?  What is the exact
difference between SCSI and ST-506 anyhow?

I'd appreciate any answers.... either to the list or to me directly.
Thanks.

Eric Giguere
Computer Systems Group, University of Waterloo
GIGUERE@WATCSG.BITNET or GIGUERE@UNCAMULT.BITNET

P.S.:  On a totally unrelated matter, I'm looking for an interesting
       use for Yacc/Bison on the Amiga.  I'm writing a 2-part article
       for the Transactor for the Amiga on using Bison and I'm looking
       for a better idea than the standard "calculator" grammar.  If
       you have an idea (the grammar has to be fairly short), please
       mail it to me.  Thanks.