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- From: naffara@crc.ac.uk (Dr. N.A. Affara)
- Subject: HELP please!
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.132258.11708@crc.ac.uk>
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- Organization: MRC Human Genome Resource Centre
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 13:22:58 GMT
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- I have just got a second hand Mega ST4 + hard disk (SH205).
- I am well chuffed with it!!!!
-
- But I have a few (ok, lots of) questions:-
- 1. The desktop info says copyright 1986,1987. Is this TOS 1.0 or 1.2?
- 2. What fixes will I need for this, and also for 1.4 which is in my ST?
- 3. What programs/files do I need to keep the hard disk working?
- (eg ahdi.prg (?) + HD???.???)
- (The basic programs to make it work, and anything to format it etc.)
- 4. Ratehd.prg tells me the SH205 has an Adaptec 4000/4070 controller, 88 ms
- seek rate (pretty crap!) and 299Kb/sec transfer rate. How does the transfer
- rate compare with other hard disks (like a Protar which I am going to get)
- and also floppies?
- 5. It has a blitter, but I haven't opened it up (yet!) to see what else there
- is. (eg VME (?) or whatever you call it). If it has got one, what can I put
- in it?
- 6. It is suprising how fast you can fill up 20 megs, especially when just the
- fonts for Timeworks take up 5 megs!
- 7. Will a cache of some kind speed up the HD? (I am still not satisfied!)
- If so, which programs are recommended?
- 8. Is it possible to upgrade the mega to TOS 1.4? (how, cost, is it worth it?)
- 9. Anything else I should get or know?
-
- Thanks for taking the trouble to get this far :-)
- Phil
- (E-mail naffara@uk.ac.crc)
- (or maybe naffara@crc.ac.uk)
- --
- Kryten (When Cat says why don't we raise the defensive shields?) "A superlative
- suggestion sir,with only two drawbacks: one,we don't have any defensive shields
- and two,we don't have any defensive shields.I know that,technically,that's only
- one drawback,but it was such a big one I thought I'd mention it twice".
-