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From: dylan@cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: 2091 ROMS.  6.1 doesn't allow reselection
Message-ID: <15583@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 28 Mar 91 15:10:15 GMT
Reply-To: dylan@june.cs.washington.edu (Dylan McNamee)
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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Ok, one more time.  My warranty finally expired (thanks for 1 year!) on
my 2500/30.  I have two drives which would occasionally hang, even with
reselection properly disabled.  I brought the computer in (a major hassle,
a town away) for whatever was the latest rom upgrade.  It is still 6.1.

Two points about 6.1 roms, from trials:  One, reselection is still not 
supported.  I managed to hang the scsi bus in one try.  It does seem to 
work with reselection disabled.

This was a big disappointment, though, because reselection is SCSI's way
of getting decent performance out of multiple drives.  I hear a new rom
(6.6?) is being worked on that fixes the reselection bug.  I'm hoping 
it will still be covered by warranty, or at least _real_ cheap.  

any word on release dates?  (I'd be glad to test beta roms 8^)

dylan
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dylan mcnamee             / "Ten Years After WWIV...there wasn't much to do;
dylan@cs.washington.edu \/all the bowling alleys were wrecked, so I spent most 
                         of my time looking for beer"  from Strange Brew