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From: stan@teroach.UUCP (Stan Fisher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 2090A.. what a bummer.
Keywords: 2090A SCSI Hard Disk
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Date: 19 Jun 89 18:30:16 GMT
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In article <1498@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>deraadt@enme3.UUCP (Theo Deraadt) writes:
>In article<11041@mcdphx.phx.mcd.mot.com>stan@teroach.phx.mcd.mot.com (I) write:
>>  Also, now that I'll be needing to back up much more data, a streamer
>>would be REAL nice, right?  Not on the 2090's though, I'm told it can't 
>>never happen.
> ^^^^^ ever (sp)

  Just looked up 'never' in Webster's.. and... yup, I spelled it right. 8^)
whatta ya call this?...  poetic license??  Yeah, that's it. ;^}

>
>From looking at the 1.3 manuals, and mention of scsi.device, it seems
>that C-A is going to support talking to any device on the scsi bus if
>you know it's id#. In exactly that way, it would be easy to hook up a
>scsi QIC tape drive and backup onto it, if the software was there, right?
>
>I would not be so quick to say never. At least the scsi part of the 2090
>is well documented.
> <tdr.
>Theo de Raadt              CPSC student              Calgary, Alberta, Canada
>(403) 289-5894

Sorry, but if you'd look again, you'd see that I was "TOLD it can't never
happen.".  That's different than making the claim myself.  Commodore
customer support (and I'm useing the term 'support' VERY loosely) told me
this when I questioned them on the use of scsi direct stuff i.e. tape on
the 2090(a).  They said it would however be supported on a new card called
the 2090b OR the 2091 (depends on which day you call them), a half slot
scsi/st506 card redesign of the 2090.  BTW, where in which 1.3 manuals did
you find scsi.device references?? 


  Stan Fisher - stan@teroach.phx.mcd.mot.com - asuvax!mcdphx!teroach!stan
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