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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PerStor Controllers
Message-ID: <347@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 89 22:19:16 GMT
References: <17767@nuchat.UUCP> <6100040@adaptex>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <6100040@adaptex> skipl@adaptex.UUCP writes:

| 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.

  Two points: first Seagate won't support any RLL on non-RLL drives,
they sell RLL drives for higher prices. However, I have used the PS180
with ST4096 and ST251 without problems. I have not used the new
PS180-16F and PS200-16F which have the floppy controller. Second,
Perstor is an OLD controller company, I believe I did business with them
in the 70's for S-100 stuff.

  The original PS180 didn't have a floppy controller and wasn't
compatible with UNIX. I sent mine back. It DID work very well for DOS,
however, which satisfied a lot of customers. The new versions do have
the floppy controller, and do work with UNIX. The new 16 bit "200
series" controllers are 16 bit and the 200-16F offers 34 sectors/track,
which doubles the capacity of the drive. They claim it will work with
any plated media drive, and I believe they have a 30 day return policy.
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