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From: lel@wuphys.UUCP (Lyle E. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Hard disk summary for the net.
Message-ID: <556@wuphys.UUCP>
Date: 21 Jun 88 21:03:23 GMT
Reply-To: lel@wuphys.UUCP (Lyle E. Levine)
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	After posting a request for info on Hard Disks that would
fit the 3 1/2" drive bay, I received quite a few requests for a
summary.  Since it seems to be a topic of some interest, I am
here posting the data I received.  My choice, based on this, was
to get the Pacific Peripherals Overdrive controller and a Seagate
ST157N drive (48Meg).  My total price was ~$750. Since I used
University discounts on the drive, it might cost more to do it
yourself.

Hope you find this info helpful!

	-Lyle Levine

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I'm sure there are plenty of choices out there.  I personally have the
following configuration:

   Pacific Peripherals Overdrive controller (SCSI)  DMA; etc.
   ST157N Drive  (Seagate 3-1/2" 48 Meg drive)

The drive fits just fine on the card itself; leaving the second 3-1/2" 
bay free for a second floppy drive (which I have).  Or if you want it
can of course be mounted in the 3-1/2" slot.

Probably for a lab environment you want as large a drive as you can get
so you may want to look for something larger than a 48Meg drive; 
I'm afraid I don't have any information on larger drives though.

I'd estimate your costs total for such extras to be:
    < $1000    For controller & 48 Meg drive

Definitely cheaper if you go mail-order or you can get a discount
(is your lab at a educational institution?).

Hope this gives you something to work with,

           Mark Lanzo
borrowing a friend's acct  ...mcnc!ece-csc!rss


P.S:  The 48Meg figure above *does* refer to the formatted capacity.
      I've seen some specs giving nice big numbers but found that they
      sometimes were referring to the unformatted capacity (groan).

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Try any of the Conner drives, the ST157N from seagate, the rodime 3057S and
3085S are also real nivce (and FAST).  Also, there are some nice Fugi 40 meg
st506 and scsi drives.

Randell Jesup, Commodore Engineering {uunet|rutgers|ihnp4|allegra}!cbmvax!jesup

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I just went through similiar considerations - a 30+ meg drive without
using up the 5 1/4 slot on the b2000.  After a lot of fumbling around,
I ordered a 40meg hardcard made by Great Valley Periphials from Go Amiga.
That card was not advertised yet and Go Amigo didn't know about it, but
Great Valley shipped it to them to ship to me, and it is supposed to be
on the way.  So, I cannot tell you how it works yet -I have not seen it.
This uses a 43meg SCSI drive, and it is mounted on the controller card
so that it only takes up one card slot - but it has to go in the one next
to the CPU.  (The card with space for 1meg expansion ram has been advertised
for about 2 months - with the drive mounted, there is no room for expansion
ram on the card.)  The whole thing cost $825 through Go Amigo.

One of my other considersations was that I wanted a controller with the 
socket for autobooting when 1.3 becomes available.  ("In June", by last
report.)

If you are interested, I suppose the prudent thing to do would be to wait
until I actually receive my order (sometime next week) and check that
I still think it is a good idea.

Patrick Palmer     arxt@sphinx.uchicago.edu   (bitnet or arpanet)
                   7.20::oddjob::ppalmer      (span)

 
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Call Sunnyvale memories at (800)-262-3475 or (800)-922-3475 (CA)
They have 3 1/4 Miniscribe hard disks that will fit on the top left
A2000 slot.  $255 for 22M and $275 from 32M RLL.  The first one should
work with the A2090. The second one will work with the Adaptec 4070
SCSI->MFM controller (and the A2090 or other SCSI controller).

-- Marco
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I'm using a Rodime 652 20MB SCSI with a Pacific Peripherals Overdrive
card in my BusExpander.  I've only had it a couple of weeks, but it seems
to be very nice, and it was only $225.  Got it from J.B. Technologies
in Chatsworth, CA.  They advertise in Computer Shopper, but if you
don't have a copy of that their number is (818) 709-6400.  They had
real good prices on other drives as well.  If you call them ask for John
and mention Bill's Boards recommended them, it probably won't get you a better
price, but they seem to be a good outfit and I'd like them to know 
we think so.  By the way the Overdrive card is working very nicely as well.
It is a SCSI/DMA controller, and will auto-boot ( with changed proms )
when 1.3 comes out.  The people at Pacific Peripherals are very responsive
and were kind enough to let us have a card for evaluation in the BusExpander.
That doesn't mean they gave us a freebie, but we can return it after the 
evaluation instead of paying for it, although I think we will buy it.

					Bill D'Camp
					General Partner
					Bill's Boards

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