Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!FORSYTHE.STANFORD.EDU!H235_016%ccvax.ucd.ie
From: H235_016%ccvax.ucd.ie@FORSYTHE.STANFORD.EDU (Padraig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: send harddrive.msg
Message-ID: <8904121436.AA21781@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 12 Apr 89 11:54:00 GMT
Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU
Organization: The Internet
Lines: 22


    I'm  planning on  getting  a 65 M/byte drive  from  3rd Coast Technologies,
has  anyone bought a drive from them ?  Any comments, good or bad, appreciated.
Does anyone know the specs of the 65M/byte drive ? Is it a 28 ns drive ?
    I heard that the 40 M/byte model consists of a Berkely Microsystems BMS-100
DMA -> SCSI board,an Adaptec 4070 SCSI controller board and a Seagate 251 drive.
The main advantages  I see with the drive  are that  a second mech can be added
easily, it comes  preformatted and  most of all the  price  is low at #549. The
main  disadvantage I anticipate  is with connecting  other DMA devices later as
there is  no DMA through. Is this much of a problem ? Do most other DMA devices
provide their own DMA through port ?

                           Thanks in advance for any information,
                                              Padraig.

( By the way the price given is in pounds sterling - the pound sign # is always
  getting converted into $ (dollar) signs on it's way through BITNET. )

_______________________________________________________________________________
| You can see I'm new at this game..      | Internet : H235_016@ccvax.ucd.ie  |
| Look ! No fancy signature, yet ...      | BITNET   : h235_016@ccvax.bitnet  |
|_____________________________________________________________________________|