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From: fgbrooks@pnet01.cts.com (Fred Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: SMD atari drives
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Date: 20 Mar 89 00:56:08 GMT
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Organization: People-Net [pnet01], El Cajon CA
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I have finished my SCSI to SMD drive using a 5580 and a m2312 drive. The
controller works with the atari or ICD host adapter. The drive is a 20ms avg
seek time and has a data rate of 10.22 megbit. I had to write a few programs
to do the first format to set up the drive then I formatted it using the
supra utilitys. It can autoboot and is pretty fast. I seem to have a bottle
neck some where because I can only "blast" 449 pictures per second. If anyone
would like more info I can down load the program examples to send the mode
command and format to set the drive up for atari formatters. They are written
in assembly.


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