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From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Hard disks, DMA vs Non-DMA
Message-ID: <1284@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 16 Nov 89 23:45:27 GMT
References: <8911150430.AA24506@jade.berkeley.edu> <14035@grebyn.com>
Reply-To: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc.
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In article <14035@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.UUCP (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
[Severely edited]
->There are "handshaking" wires on a SCSI connector that
->lets the computer tell the SCSI disk drive how fast it can accept data....
->the A2090's SCSI adapter doesn't properly use the available handshaking to
->slow the SCSI disk drive down when it's FIFO fills....  fixed on the A2091...

Does the A590 have this problem, or is it more like the A2091 than the
A2090A?
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-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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