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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: 2090A scsi direct
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Date: 6 Apr 90 23:56:42 GMT
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In <28681@cup.portal.com>, phorgan@cup.portal.com (Patrick John Horgan) writes:
>Just wanted to add a note to anyone doing scsi direct for tapes.
>The 2090A doesn't seem to support multi-block read/writes.  If you
>always do a 1 block read/write it's ok, otherwise you get phase-errors.

Thanks for the tip. I'll check that out. I haven't been getting phase errors,
unless the hanging in DoIO is actually due to a phase error that is not being
reported (I know the error reporting of hddisk.device is hosed). It's sure
worth a shot though.

>Have fun:)

I guess it is fun, isn't it? :-)

-larry

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