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From: bob@ns.UUCP (Bob Mathias)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Difference between 1542a and 1542b
Message-ID: <124@ns.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 91 06:12:20 GMT
References: <91037.145823AVP100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Reply-To: bob@ns.UUCP (Bob Mathias)
Organization: Unisys Corporation; Irvine, California
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In article <91037.145823AVP100@psuvm.psu.edu> AVP100@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
>The difference bwteen the two 1542 models is that the b model is a bus master
>card which allows the card to bypass the cpu and control the drive directly.  T
>his is useful and speeds up multitasking systems.

Both cards are bus master cards.  The 1542b is a half-size card while the
1542a is full size.

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