Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ginosko!uunet!ucscc.ucsc.edu!gorn!filbo From: filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us (Bela Lubkin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: A590 experience anyone ? Message-ID: <43.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> Date: 29 Sep 89 17:01:24 GMT References: <509@aucis.UUCP> <8033@cbmvax.UUCP> Organization: R Pentomino Lines: 19 X-Claimer: I >am< R Pentomino! In article <8033@cbmvax.UUCP> Randell Jesup writes: >In article <509@aucis.UUCP> easton@aucis.UUCP (Jeff Easton) writes: >> Am I to belive that the A590 from Commodore has an XT style IDE >>hardrive in it and not a SCSI style drive? [...] > XT drives are cheap. Scsi drives are not as cheap. Controlling an >XT drive, given the WD scsi chip and our custom gate array, is very easy. What's not clear to me is, are you using IDE drives or ST506 in the A590? ST506 drives are often called "XT drives". IDE is a new interface that puts most of the controller on the drive and requires little more than a bus to interface to. It >sounds< like you're using IDE, but... It'd be good to know because IDE drives should eventually be considerably cheaper than comparable ST506, SCSI or ESDI drives (mainly because they're PC-specific and therefore will see disgusting economies of scale...) Bela Lubkin * * filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us CIS: 73047,1112 @ * * ...ucbvax!ucscc!gorn!filbo ^^^ REALLY slow [months] R Pentomino * Filbo @ Pyrzqxgl (408) 476-4633 & XBBS (408) 476-4945