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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Fast SCSI
Message-ID: <12401@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 22 Mar 90 17:56:36 GMT
References: <WOMBAT.90Mar21131421@claris.com> <7114@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <7114@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) writes:
>In article <WOMBAT.90Mar21131421@claris.com> wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) writes:
>>** IMPORTANT: In order for DMA to work right, the system must be running at
>>1MHz.
>	Boy that seems like one --HUGE-- flaw to me...

Me too.  I would hope that the DMA SCSI card, or at the very least the
GS/OS driver for it, it smart enough to shift the Apple IIGS into slow
mode temporarily (if indeed this is a restriction) then restore it to
its original speed when the I/O transfer is done.