Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!danube!thiger!skraw From: skraw@thiger.UUCP (Stephan von Krawczynski) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: GVP Trade-in Message-ID: <02116.135633@thiger.UUCP> Date: 20 Aug 90 17:26:33 GMT References: <589@oregon.oacis.org> <38CP09P@dri.com> <03259.AA03259@babylon.UUCP> Organization: THIndustries Software Development Lines: 52 >In article <03259.AA03259@babylon.UUCP> rbabel@babylon.UUCP (Ralph Babel) writes: >In article <589@oregon.oacis.org> jmeissen@oregon.oacis.org >(John Meissen - Staff OACIS) writes: > >> Comments on SCSI implementation, > > 2/3 >(multiple LUNs, 2/3 >multiple boards, 3 >HD_-SCSICMD), 2/3 > 2/3 >(Rigid Disk Block standard, 2/3 >booting from FFS partition), 2/3 > 2/3 >(automatic use of 2.0 filing system), 2/3 >full disconnect/reconnect, 2/3 >support for automatic DiskChange even with 1.3 FFS 2/3 >block sizes != 512, n/n not implemented yet, we'll see ... password-protection for each partition? >driver automatically executing out of 32-bit memory * >A-Max II (Macintosh emulator) support # 2 = ALF2 supports it (out over one year) 3 = ALF3 supports it (out yet) * the data-transfer code is put to fastest available mem and executed there (both ALF2 and ALF3 support this). the rest from rom, we couldn't find a difference, sorry, we could not. # i currently have no AMaxII. this is why i do not state anything here. if i have one i'll tell you. still no exact speed-statement. >> compatability issues (anybody got a tape drive or CD-ROM >> drive?), ALF2/ALF3 work at least with CALIPER/WANGTEK/TEAC-streamers (all tested myself). sony optical works, too. >Ralph -- best regards, stephan von krawczynski UUCP : ...!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!danube!thiger!skraw PHONE: +49 9938 1664 FAX : +49 9938 1598