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From: janhen@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (Jan Hendrikx)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Xetec controller
Summary: MaxTranfer... sigh
Keywords: xetec controller
Message-ID: <366@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl>
Date: 6 Jul 89 11:05:36 GMT
References: <1889@leah.Albany.Edu>
Reply-To: janhen@wn2.sci.kun.nl (Jan Hendrikx)
Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Lines: 18
Comments: From: Olaf Seibert

In article <1889@leah.Albany.Edu> hb136@leah.Albany.Edu (Herb Brown) writes:
|The following was posted on GEnie (file #6588).
|
|Are Xetec Controllers that Fast?
[...]
|            The BUG in the Xetec products prevents them from doing sequential
|reads or writes of more than 128K of data, [...]
|
|  Long sequential reads and writes were not allowed prior to the advent
|the FastFileSystem introduced with AmigaDOS 1.3.  Since the introduction of
|FFS, long reads and writes are still not commonly encountered, but are by no
|means a rarity [...]

This shows us how the people at AmigaWorld, the people at Xetec, and
the (unknown) poster of this warning all forgot about MaxTransfer in
the mountlist.

-Olaf