Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!sun!imagen!atari!portal!cup.portal.com!thad From: thad@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: A2090 Message-ID: <9259@cup.portal.com> Date: 19 Sep 88 07:57:01 GMT References: <8809092138.AA05543@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <4702@cbmvax.UUCP> <9071 Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 18 XPortal-User-Id: 1.1001.2826 Hi George (grr@cbmvax), Thanks for posting the additional info re: ST506 and ST412 differences. I didn't; I kept my original answer within the context of the original question (number of heads). I didn't see need to enter several pages of specs! :-) Re: large drives: yes, they're really dropping in price on the surplus market (re: NEW drives). 380MB Maxtors can be purchased for under $2,000 each; Dale Luck just purchased 3 and I purchased 2; mine work fine with the Supra 4x4 (on A1000) but Dale was unable (as of last week) to get his to function with the A2090A (the XT-3380 are embedded SCSI drives; you may wish to check with Dale and/or Kodiak re: their analysis of the problem(s)). Thad Floryan [thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ...!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad]