Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!ucbvax!unisoft!bdt!bms From: bms@bdt.UUCP (Vance Chin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Hard drive controler info Summary: Correct info on BMS host cards Message-ID: <111@bdt.UUCP> Date: 9 Aug 89 15:04:56 GMT References: <89080709104916@masnet.uucp> Reply-To: bms@bdt.UUCP (Vance Chin) Organization: Berkeley Microsystems Lines: 17 In article <89080709104916@masnet.uucp> robert.rasmussen@canremote.uucp (ROBERT RASMUSSEN) writes: --- stuff deleted --- >Both the Atari and Berkley systems work with slower controllers like teh >Adaptec and OMTI but they work poorly with faster type embedded SCSI >drives! --- end deleted --- You must be thinking of the BMS-100 board which we are no longer shipping. The BMS-200 has replaced it and has a 1.6 Megabyte/second sustained data rate. One CDC Wren SCSI drive that a customer brought by had a transfer rate of about 700+ Kbytes/s. Both the Atari's host adapter used in the SH204 and ICD's host adapter transfer data at about the same rate. Vance Chin Berkeley Microsystems message for Frans: please reply so I can get a good path...