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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: SCSI (Re: async write to disk)
Message-ID: <+83lh2.l$3@smurf.sub.org>
Date: 1 Feb 91 17:45:59 GMT
References: <1CE00001.a1e4o2@tbomb.ice.com>
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In comp.sys.mac.programmer, article <1CE00001.a1e4o2@tbomb.ice.com>,
  time@ice.com writes:
< 
< > I believe, or a new SCSI manager.
< 
< This is true with one exception. Several manufacturers now sell NuBus
< cards that implement SCSI. These are designed in such a way as to
< allow asynchronous I/O and dual I/O. I helped write a driver for just
< such a card that allowed disk writes to occur while data was being
< read from an image card. This worked very well.
< 
However, the card's SCSI driver has to support this, and it better be a
_real_ driver, not another beast like the MacOS SCSI Manager.

Does anyone know what happened to the "new", parameter-block-style, SCSI
driver which was mentioned in the Alpha documentation for System 7.0?
< I know MicroNet has such a card, I programmed the Golden Triangle
< ASP card, and I think DayStar has a card.
< 
Does anyone out there know whether one of these works under A/UX?
I've run out of SCSI IDs and do need another SCSI bus into this here IIfx.
Support for parity (the normal A/UX SCSI driver doesn't use it, much less the
MacOS SCSI Manager) and DMA (required!) would also be a good idea.

Prices, and possibly the name of the German distributor..?
I'd try and get the information myself, but from Germany this tends to be
hideously expensive (can't call 800 numbers, the phone rates for int'l calls
from here are among the highest in the world, and my budget is very limited
already).

aTdHvAaNnKcSe, and all that.

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