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From: MacUserLabs@cup.portal.com (Stephan - Somogyi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Problem with Fastback II
Message-ID: <21114@cup.portal.com>
Date: 8 Aug 89 01:14:43 GMT
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cramer@sun.com (Sam Cramer) writes:

>Just a guess, but this may be due to the fact that the tape drive
>does not disconnect from the SCSI bus until the (lengthy) tape
>operation is complete, denying the Mac access to the bus (which it
>would need to read the disk).

The problem is on the Mac side. Hopefully, with a forthcoming System
release, Apple will finally release the async SCSI Manager.

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Stay alert, trust no-one, keep your laser handy.

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