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From: lti!talmage@bu-it.bu.edu (David Talmage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: A2000 DMA SCSI disk controllers: What's the final word?
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Date: 21 Apr 89 13:00:39 GMT
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Last night I attended the Boston Computer Society Amiga user group meeting.
It was supposed to be about choosing and installing a hard disk.  Instead,
it was a local dealer, a nice guy but not too knowledgeable, showing us
some of the Great Valley Products we could buy from his store.  This was
entertaining, to be sure, but not the informative meeting I expected.

I've pretty much decided on getting an 80-Meg Quantum drive but don't know
yet which controller I want.  It should auto-boot; auto-booting from a FFS
partition is a plus.  I suppose it should do DMA.  It should be a SCSI
controller.  It shouldn't slow down when doing disk i/o while Amy's working
with 16-color high-resolution screens.

With that in mind, who can recommend a DMA SCSI controller for me?  I'd
like to know where you bought it; what kind of performance I can expect
from it; and any problems you've had with it.  I'd also like to know what
you paid for it.


This is probably of general interest, but in the spirit of lowering
net.traffic, how 'bout if we do this by e-mail and I'll summarize within
two weeks.


Thanks for you help.


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