On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Mark Brinicombe wrote:

[snip talk about SCSI drives and server]

> The internal IDE and IDE podules (ICS,simtec etc.) will provide 1MB/sec 
> xfer rates. This is limited by these cards being 16 bit PIO interfaces.
> Currently the only faster IDE is the RapIDE which is not yet supported.
> However from conversations I have last week RapIDE a high performance 
> RapIDE driver *may* become a reality very soon.

Does this mean that the info they promised at Acorn World is coming to you
soon? with a card?

If a fast xfer rate is managed on RapIDE would this be the better medium
for baseing a news-server?

Chris Gilbert