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From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Future Domain TMC-860 has 8 bit bus
Message-ID: <1991Jan05.142942.20402@nstar.rn.com>
Date: 5 Jan 91 14:29:42 GMT
References: <7431@uklirb.informatik.uni-kl.de>
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kirchner@informatik.uni-kl.de (Reinhard Kirchner) writes:

>Looking nearer: The AT part of the slot is used only for additional
>interrupt lines ( 10,11,12,13,14 ), but NOT for the databus. So this
>is really a 8 bit adapter like the earlier ones. It may be faster than those
>for other reasons, but definitly not because of bus width.

yep - we found the same thing out - and called FD and at the time
(last summer) were told that FD didn't make a card which did 16 bit
data transfers.

We used the board under Novell 2.15 until it died 9 months later -
then replaced it with an Adaptec 1542B - which does do 16 bit data
transfers.  We should have bought the 1542B to start with - 


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