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- From: vid.pecjak@guest.arnes.si (Jernej Pecjak)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: FIRST TOUCH with Jaz drive
- Date: 25 Mar 1996 21:54:18 GMT
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- Hi:
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- Well, I have Jaz drive here now. It is actually a Micronet drive, but it is
- the same as Jaz drive in all but the casing which is a standard external case.
- I like the Iomega cases better though.
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- Well, I tested with the squirrel only and that was on a stock Amiga 1200
- (Squirrel doesn't work yet on A1260, Hisoft, you here me???) so I won't talk
- about speed tests here - I barely could use it on 2Mb :-(
-
- Well, the drive spins up and down a lot slower than the ZIP drive I previously
- had. But the storage capacity is 1020 Mb :-))) There seems to be a bug in HD
- Toolbox because when I start it the drive needs 15 minutes to go through the
- checking scsi devices phase. With RD Prep, it is a matter of secons. I can
- prepare it as a normal hard disk, but the number of heards is 1 again, like it
- was with ZIP. I am using a 8 heads config now, so I have less cylinders
- (formats faster). If anybody has any mountlist for this beast, could you send
- it to me please. Well, the speed on a stock amiga 1200 is really good, well
- not the speed, but the seek time in seek speed is cool - from 7-9 ms comparing
- with my IDE HD (25-42 ms) it looks nice.
-
- I love the thing, but I need proper scsi controler for it. I heard cyberstorm
- is delayed until May, so I don't need to tell you that story...
-
- Jernej
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