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From: a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Hard Drive/Controller
Message-ID: <753@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 28 Nov 89 23:13:35 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In Msg-ID: <24278@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>, kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
(Kent D. Polk) writes:
|In article <24531@cup.portal.com> FelineGrace@cup.portal.com
|(Dana B Bourgeois) writes:
|>And why don't we have SCSI modems?  Don't tell me a 9600 BPS modem
|>wouldn't benefit from SCSI.  Better yet, why wouldn't it be a good idea?
|
| How about ... a SCSI Tape Backup!
| How about a Mac SCSI scanner?
|   Is there a hardware limitation with the 2090A or other available
| SCSI controllers for Amigas which will not let them communicate with
| such devices or just a lack of software support?
|
 Time to talk up SCSI Direct (aka scsidisk.i|h in the includes/devices)!
Wherein it is writ:
;   SCSI Command
;       Several Amiga SCSI controller manufacturers are converging on
;       standard ways to talk to their controllers.  This include
;       file describes an exec-device command (e.g. for hddisk.device)
;       that can be used to issue SCSI commands
  I think it is important that all developers/manufacturers support this
command. The Amiga deserves to have a well defined, supported standard
method of using any SCSI device with any SCSI controller.
  I know that there are difficulties in that not all SCSI devices are
created equal, some will support extensions that others don't. Okay. Let
the hacker community worry about it. I am sure that there are just
oodles of guys out there who would love to tackle getting a CD-ROM
talking to their Amiga. And if we end up with 15 or 20 drivers
(Hitachiscsi.device, NECscsi.device, AMDEKscsi.device) so be it. The
point is that until SCSI Direct is supported there is no standard way to
even get to the SCSI bus.
  As a buyer you can do your bit by, the next time you are buying a
SCSI controller, simply asking, "Does it support SCSI Direct?"

  Hey CBM, do the A590 & the A2091 support SCSI Direct?
  Hey C Ltd, do you support SCSI Direct?
  Hey MicroBotics, Hey GVP, Hey ...

  <-Harvey

  "The more I think about history, ancient or modern,
                    the more ironical human affairs seem."-Tacitus
      Harvey Taylor      Meta Media Productions
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