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From: pwb@newt.phys.unsw.OZ.AU (Paul W. Brooks)
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Subject: Re: Mac and Amiga (Games--Macintosh vs A500)
Summary: Hard disk speeds
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Date: 14 Mar 91 13:22:56 GMT
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In article <00668212609@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM>, elg@elgamy.RAIDERNET.COM (Eric Lee Green) writes:
> 
> And now the problem in the Amiga hard drive interface market is glut :-).
> (I can think of over a dozen SCSI interfaces, ranging from awefully slow
> programmed I/O capable of maybe 200K/second, to the super-fast DMA designs
> capable of 2MB/sec or more).
> 

Could you post a brief summary of the SCSI interfaces you know about,
maybe in order fastest-to-slowest - I'm sure I'm not the only one who
would like to know which 'dogs' to avoid! Maybe anyone who has info. on
others might like to add their collective knowledge?

> --
> Eric Lee Green   (318) 984-1820  P.O. Box 92191  Lafayette, LA 70509
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