Not quite ancient, but still from the early 90's, my 4gig SCSI hard
drive is still in use with my BBS (DarkForce)...
That drive has been a real trooper, still going strong after all
these years... :)
To which Commodore Clifford replies...
I'm seriously considering going back to spinny platters for the BBS.
The more I think about it, the more I question the wisdom of using
cards for something with that much write activity.
I just wish the MSTE hadn't become unreliable. I like having the
smaller footprint on the desk.
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To which Darklord replies...
Wait - I thought your Mega STe was now running good and hosting
SFHQ's now? I must have misunderstood...
To which Darklord replies...
I've considered SD-cards but as you've mentioned, I've always been a
little concerned about response time and longetivity, especially with
(as you mentioned) all the writes involved with a BBS.
I know what someday, that 4gig SCSI drive of mine will bite the
bullet. It's pretty much inevitable. I do have a new/unused 2gig SCSI
drive waiting as backup (assuming it's not withered away from age) so
we'll see how it goes.
Not quite ancient, but still from the early 90's, my 4gig SCSI hard drive
mostly AHA-1522 or similar adaptec cards. But the handbrake at the
That's one of Adaptec's most crap card. Had lots of issues with them...
That's one of Adaptec's most crap card. Had lots of issues with
them...
Funny, aside from the ~2Gb 3.5" drives, never had a problem with them,
and performance was reasonably good too.
To which Commodore Clifford replies...
Well, the Mega STE was getting to the point that if the power got
turned off, even for a moment, it would take hours or days of trying
to get it back on and booting again... Just not reliable... you have
a brief power blip and the BBS is down for a week.
So I moved it to one of my Mega ST's (a Mega 4) and it's been fairly
solid since. Not liking the TOS 1.04, but alas.
Really would have loved to get it on EmuTos, but that's another sad
story.
To which Commodore Clifford replies...
What I'm really not liking about spinning drives... getting something "newer" and I'm wasting tons of space. My OCD doesn't like that. :(
But we'll see.
On 31 Jul 22 16:12:20 Commodore Clifford wrote...
To which Commodore Clifford replies...
What I'm really not liking about spinning drives... getting
something "newer" and I'm wasting tons of space. My OCD doesn't
like that. :(
But we'll see.
To which Darklord replies...
I know. I've got my 4 gigger and the SCSI CD-ROM housed in a separate
case that sits beside the Mega ST4. I always think, wow, if I go
internal Ultrasatan or Gigafile or something like that, I can get rid
of that box, the Link 2, the EZ-135, etc, etc,...
But then I'd lose the CD-ROM option for DarkForce. That's pretty
unique among Atari BBS's and I'm loathe to give it up. :)
I found all the SCSI drives from about 2-4Gb of that age horribly unreliable. In fairness and retrospect it may have been the
controllers but they were mostly AHA-1522 or similar adaptec cards.
But the handbrake at the time tried on in her desktop install linux,
and it'd be forever corrupts and wind up with crosslinked files. I
also had the same issue trying it in the file server of the day too.
Even the IIgs didn't like it much which was something because it
tended to talk to everything nicely.
Spec
To which Commodore Clifford replies...
Now I should hook up the 100 disk DVD changer and really show you
what's what.
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