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From: rbabel@babylon.UUCP (Ralph Babel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: scsi-controllers
Summary: Yet another "my #? is better than your #?".
Message-ID: <02969.AA02969@babylon.UUCP>
Date: 10 Aug 90 22:17:08 GMT
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In article <01789.102311@thiger.UUCP> skraw@thiger.UUCP
(Stephan von Krawczynski) writes:

> does anybody know a scsi-controller (besides ALF2) that
> supports:
>
> - FULLY functional disconnect/reconnect-protocol
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Heh-heh! I don't believe this until I've tested it myself!

> - multiple LUNs
> - password protected partitions
> - automount of all partitions
> - autoboot from FFS-partition
> - RDBs (interchange of media with other controllers like A2091/A3000)
> - hd_scsicmds
> - changeable media (syquest) with FFS

Except for the password protection:
A2091/A3000 and GVP's latest SCSI driver.

But what about ...

- DMA instead of polling,
- no MaxTransfer limit (i.e. 0x7FFFFFFF),
- block sizes != 512 (e.g. 20 meg Bernoullis),
- driver automatically executing out of 32-bit memory,
- FileSystem.resource - automatically uses 2.0 ROM filing system,
- multiple controller boards supported with a single driver EPROM,
- A-Max II support.

Of course, I'm biased, but so is Stephan. :-)

Ralph