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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 945.1 | his problem is solved... | AISG::MISKINIS | | Mon Aug 27 1990 03:53 | 5 |
| OK, he's up and running now... He was typing "c" instead of "C" for
the disk identifer... BUT, I figured I'd leave the note, in case
anyone has information to share on the 40MB or any SUPRA drives...
_John_
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| 945.2 | My supra back door worked fine | PAULJ::HARRIMAN | Deb in Air | Mon Aug 27 1990 17:33 | 10 |
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Hmm. I've had a 30MB Supra drive for a couple of years now, and
I've had very little trouble with it. However, I also made a backup
copy of the supra system utilities onto a floppy - that way you can
still get at the disk by booting from the floppy, then installing the
disk, then going after the offending program (usually in your AUTO
folder). I haven't had to do this in almost two years though.
/pjh
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| 945.3 | War stories from Supra owners??? | VINO::OCONNOR | Passion & Warfare | Thu Sep 20 1990 10:40 | 7 |
| Anybody else out there got a supra? I'm looking at buying one and I'm
looking for comments on how well they work and how good is the software
etc.
Thanks in advance
Joe
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| 945.4 | My opinion is mixed | PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ | Jeffrey A. Lomicka | Fri Sep 21 1990 12:18 | 13 |
| I once called Supra tech support to buy a replacement power supply for
a 30MB RLL drive that had a fried supply, and they said "I'm sorry, we
have a policy of not selling parts to customers. If you want it fixed,
you must send the whole drive back io us, and if it is indeed the
supply, it will cost $60 plus shipping."
While the price was good, I thought the policy stunk. I picked a supply
out of my junk pile that fit, and run with that. It doesn't fit the
factory mounting holes, but it fits inside the box and it works.
If it's second hand at a good price, go for it, otherwise get something
ICD based from Toad. ICD's driver software is the best in the industry.
(Although Atari's is getting pretty good too.)
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| 945.5 | They are small | PRNSYS::LOMICKAJ | Jeffrey A. Lomicka | Fri Sep 21 1990 12:19 | 1 |
| One advantage of the Supra drives is that they are smaller than anyone else's.
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| 945.6 | | UPWARD::SANDERSB | Resist much, Obey little | Fri Sep 21 1990 16:49 | 25 |
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I agree with Jeff that they are indeed smaller, they are also not
expandable, so one disk is the max you can put into one case.
My mom has a Supra that went bad after a couple of years of
continous use - the drive itself, not anything else. So she is
out looking to upgrade the drive from a 30 mB to a 40 mB. I
haven't talked with her lately, but I don't think it is going
back to Supra, rather just get a drive and stuff it into the box.
I put together an ICD based system last year and it has been
working great. I got a cabinet from another vendor, but the Atsi
to SCSI interface, Adaptec st506 interface and cables all came
from ICD through my local vendor. My only complaint is the small
size of the ICD Atsi interface board wouldn't fit the standard
board mounts in my case.
The funny thing is that even with the slow drive I have - rates
at 83 ms avg. according to ICD's testing tool, the overall
transfer rate is 309k/s which is faster than the poor folks over
in the Amiga conference can achieve with expensive screaming fast
drives. But then, there are other tradeoffs to the Atari, so I
guess it really is all relative.
Bob
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