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From: Harvey_Taylor@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Xetec FastTrak controllers (Opinions?)
Message-ID: <5353@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 91 10:23:08 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In <1991Apr1.172158.25341@swbatl.sbc.com>, davidh@swbatl.sbc.com
                                                (Dave Howarth) writes:
|  I have a Xetec Fastcard and it does NOT display the problems I've
| read in this thread.  I feel the delays are with the device driver
| for the CD and probably has nothing to do with the disk controller.

    As the original poster who mentioned Xetec CD problems, I should
 say that this may well be so. I have not finished disassembling
 the harddisk.device & the CDxFileSystem, so I can't be sure, yet.
 Also Xetec did mention there was a cdrom.device upcoming, and this
 may fix the problem.

| In fact, I like Xetec's FastCard software/hardware.

    As I said it is functional. With the CD there is an install program
 that writes a mountlist and copies various stuff to your system. I have
 a prejudice against such installation wares.
    -het

 "If science fiction means anything,
            we should prefer the unmarked trails." -G. Benford

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