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From: johnhlee@CS.Cornell.EDU (John H. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Xetec FastTrak controllers (Opinions?)
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.054017.14442@cs.cornell.edu>
Date: 1 Apr 91 05:40:17 GMT
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In article <5318@mindlink.UUCP> Harvey_Taylor@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor) writes:
>    I got the Xetec MiniFast card to go with the CDROM. It does seem
>  to be functional, BUT!
>                    BUT!
>                    BUT! it turns off the interrupts for seconds at a
>  time. It is quite annoying to have your machine freeze every 5-6 seconds
>  for 2-3 seconds while the driver is accessing the cd.
>
>    How are other hard drive controllers in this respect.
>  HardFrame? GVP?

Ick.  Is the Xetec non-DMA?  Thankfully, my HardFrame (being full DMA)
doesn't suffer from this problem.

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	John Lee		Internet: johnhlee@cs.cornell.edu
The above opinions of those of the user, and not of this machine.