no rom basic

From: jpero_at_cgocable.net <(jpero_at_cgocable.net)>
Date: Tue Feb 9 09:37:38 1999

Date sent: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 07:59:06 -0700
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From: "Richard Erlacher" <edick_at_idcomm.com>
To: "Discussion re-collecting of classic computers" <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: no rom basic
Originally to: <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>

> An important thing to keep in mind, however, is that not all drives adhere
> to the latest, or even the more recent standard. Since this discussions
> centers around old hardware, I'd be REALLY careful with ide interfaced
> devices.
>
> Case in point:

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> Dick
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Dick's one of points are correct!

BTW, was that MXT drive has cirrus logic chipset somewhere?
That is very well known chipset to not work very well with anything
else. Early conner, segates and anything that used it suffered from
this problem and blown chip is frightfully common and tend to be
slow too. But not this worse like yours experienced with a ruined
HD hooked to dual drive configuration! I only see like these usually
works very SLOOOWWly several minutes to just move few
kilobytes, or doesn't work at all.

About 3 years ago I was searching for a high speed HD like MXT
and someone has one and wanted over 300 dollars for it. No way!
At that time I'm using LPS120AT (rare high performance HD with
256K which makes big difference even to any 128K and spun
platter, yes 1 platter, at 4500rpm.) That suffered from teething
problems it died 2 times because of that bad rev burned in
Discache EPROM.

All of my current drives and previous drives since then are always
IDE based performance series. I.e. Fireball ST, EX, Medalist ST.

Thank goodness (OT!) that Quantum and many others are selling
7200rpm IDE drives now. :-) SCSI is great but it's good for heavily
tasked or server where single users machines with IDE is good
enough usually.

Jason D.
Received on Tue Feb 09 1999 - 09:37:38 GMT