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From: rbabel@babylon.rmt.sub.org (Ralph Babel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Anyone own an ICD SCSI hd controler? Others mentioned..
Message-ID: <07187.AA07187@babylon.rmt.sub.org>
Date: 4 Apr 91 04:34:18 GMT
References: <91084.191834IO91461@MAINE.BITNET> <2254@wet.UUCP>
Reply-To: cbmvax.commodore.com!cbmehq!babylon!rbabel (Ralph Babel)
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In article <2254@wet.UUCP>, pk@wet.UUCP (Philip King)
writes:

> While I don't seem to have the figures handy, it seemed to
> peak out at somewhere around 600k reads, on my
> unaccelerated A2000.
> [...]
> In those specs, it shows the ICD to be faster than nearly
> every other controller shown (which includes the GVP II,
> Wordsync, Trumpcard, 2091, and others) in most parameters.

600k reads on a standard A2000 is no problem for the A2091
or GVP's Series-II (don't know about Wordsync or Trumpcard).

> Before anyone else, ICD claimed to support
> auto-diskchange,

GVP have supported removable media for >2 years now.

Ralph