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From: colin@watcsc.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SRAM vs. DRAM, 33MHz 386 UNIX-PC
Message-ID: <1989Sep13.122435.23629@watcsc.waterloo.edu>
Date: 13 Sep 89 16:24:32 GMT
References: <21936@cup.portal.com> <46500076@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <22011@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: colin@watcsc.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
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In article <22011@cup.portal.com> cliffhanger@cup.portal.com (Cliff C Heyer) writes:
>What about SYNCHRONOUS SCSI in the Amiga? (4.0MB/sec) Or DMA & memory 
>can't handle it at this speed(?)

The Microbotics HardFrame can do synchronous SCSI whenever they get the
drivers written.  My problem is finding a drive that can do it.

>Do sync & async are about the same cost? Why use synchronous SCSI vs. 
>async? 

Sync is considerably more complex, and chips to support it are a more recent
development.  But it's a few times faster, and nothing is ever too fast...
-- 
	-Colin Plumb