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From: skipl@adaptex.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PerStor Controllers
Message-ID: <6100040@adaptex>
Date: 22 Dec 89 16:07:00 GMT
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Nf-From: adaptex.UUCP!skipl    Dec 22 10:07:00 1989


/* Written  6:19 am  Dec 22, 1989 by nuchat.UUCP!orion%nuchat in adaptex:comp.sy.ibm.pc */
/* ---------- "PerStor Controllers" ---------- */
/ am currently in the process of putting together a
/achine, and have seen the ads for the PerStor Disk
/ontrollers claiming to give 190% of the storage on a
/tandard MFM drive.  The drives I plan to use are a
/eagate ST-251, and an ST-4096.  If this gadget works
/t would give me 228Mb instead of the 120 that these
/rives provide, with a 9Mbit/s transfer rate instead of
/.  My question is have any of you used the PerStor
/ontrollers, do they really work as advertised on
/tandard drives with no problems?  What technology do
/hey use to accomplish this?  I will be running Unix
/ystem V/386 from Bell Tech on this box, has anyone
/otten such a combination to work with BellTech Unix,
/r with any other SV/386?  Oh, the release number is
/.0 if that makes a big difference, I had heard that
/csi controllers don't work without the 3.2 update...
/s usual, please reply by mail, and if anyone else
/ants to know I'll either forward the info to them, or
/ummarize and follow-up.
/
/  thanx in advance,
    Roland Pleasant Dunkerley III, K.S.C., NonD
    (orion@nuchat.sccsi.com)
    K A T E   B U S H   I S   G O D !
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I suggest that you be very careful with this approach. I spent 22 years in the 
drive business and feel I know that technology very well. Don't know 
anything about that controller company but I strongly recommend
you talk directly to the Seagate people to make sure the drives will
handle this and they will stand behind it. Try them at (800) 468-3472, 
that's the last number I have for them. Looking forward to hearing about
your experiences. Maybe we are looking at something new and improved.