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From: stevem@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM (Steve McClure)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: supra-drive
Summary: A hearty recommedation for Supra.
Keywords: supra-drive, experience.
Message-ID: <2031@sauron.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 3 Mar 90 16:36:55 GMT
References: <89@spader.UUCP>
Reply-To: stevem@sauron.UUCP (Steve McClure)
Organization: E&M-Columbia, NCR Corp, W Columbia, SC
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In article <89@spader.UUCP> lab@spader.UUCP (Lars Berntzon) writes:
>Hello, i am about to purchase a harddisk for the A500 and i have been
>looking arount a bit. One interesting drive i found was a drive called
>SUPRA, a SCSI 60 Mb, 11mS drive with optionally 2 Mb ram expansion.
>I've heard roumors about this drive not being so good based on some reason i
>don't recall, can any one give me some ideas of what this drive is like.
>
>    Thanks !

I had a Supra controller for my 500 together with a variety of disks,
including SCSI->ST506 controllers and disks.  The setup software was nice
and they keep improving it.  It now supports SCSIdirect calls.  I got 
about 200K reads (dperf2 32K buffer) on a 28ms disk.  Writes were about
60K/sec.  I was to the point were I needed more RAM and decided to get a
2000 instead of the getting the RAM card and having one more piece to sell
later.  I have had nothing but good experiences with Supra equipment.


Steve
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