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From: andyc@hplsla.HP.COM (Andy Cassino)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SCSI controler...
Message-ID: <5440110@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 19 Mar 90 20:44:26 GMT
References: <3790@plains.UUCP>
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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| Just an offhand question - do either of these cards allow the DMA system
| to continue to function if the attached SCSI bus is powered off? My old
| Supra card did, but my current one (smoked the old one - oops!) doesn't.
| (So if the hard drive is plugged in but turned off, the floppy drive is
| no longer usable.)
| 
|   -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan
| ----------

My ICD host adaptor allows this. Seems like an essential feature if you play
games that can't be put on the hard drive!

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