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- From: bcarter@awinc.com (Bob Carter)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 1 gig SCSI Hard Drives
- Date: 27 Mar 1996 07:11:54 GMT
- Organization: A & W Internet Inc.
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- K. C. Lee <de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:
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- > Bob Carter (bcarter@awinc.com) writes:
- >> I'm looking to put a gig SCSI hard drive into my A3000.
- >> Has anyone any experience with the 1.08 gig SCSI2 NEC HD3827?
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- > I have one of these in my A1000 with a homebrew SCSI controller. It has
- > only 32K of on-board cache, but it was cheap. New ones are about $210
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- I was told that this drive has 128k cache and is 11ms average seek time.
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- > U.S. Mine peaks out at about 1.2MB/sec using DiskSpeed 4.1. I would
- > expect it to go a bit higher for a better SCSI setup. I would recommend
- > going for a Quantum or something else if they are say < $50 more. For my
- > setup, this drives is quite okay. I don't have any docs on it and
- > wouldn't mind getting some tech info. It runs fairly low power (less than
- > my old Quantum Pro105S that it replaced and cost less too. :)
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- Is there something about Quantum drives that make them the Amiga HD of choice?
- I've talked to some PC shops and they seem to slag the Quantum somewhat, saying
- that it's slower ...
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- > I have extract bits and pieces of ProbeSCSI outputs:
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- > ANSI Approved Version : 2 (ANSI X3.131-1990)
- > Wide Bus 16 Support : Not Supported
- > Synchronous Transfer : Supported
- > Linked Commands : Supported
- > Tagged Command Queuing : Not Supported
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- > Number of Blocks 2116800
- > Block Size 512 <- Not changable
- > Number of Cylinders 2100
- > Number of Heads 16
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- > The drive have tiny surface mount dip switch for ID's !! :) Definitely
- > beats playing around with metric 5mm jumpers. It uses 2 dip resistor
- > packs for termination.
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- > Hope this helps.
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- > K. C. Lee
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- It does, thanks a lot KC!
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