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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A2000
Message-ID: <2343@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 15-Sep-87 19:44:21 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 15 19:44:21 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 18-Sep-87 02:09:15 EDT
References: <2787@uwmcsd1.UUCP> <2324@cbmvax.UUCP> <154@bby-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <154@bby-bc.UUCP> john@bby-bc.UUCP (john) writes:
> .
> .
> > >    Is the amiga capable of using a SCSI interface? Where can I order one
> > >    What is the cheapest hard drive system offered for the amiga?
> > 
> > 	The A2090 disk controller board for the A2000 supports both
> > 	ST506/412 and SCSI disks.  The general idea is that the SCSI
> > 	portion should work with drives currently being marketed for
> > 	use with those Mac type computers.
> 
> Is it a general scsi interface? e.g. if I plug an omti scsi->qic02 tape
> controller into it will I be able to use my tape drive?  Is driver source
> for the scsi port available?

The SCSI driver currently supports only disk type devices, however there is
provision for higher level software to pass random SCSI commands thru the
driver to perform other functions.  Disks seem to be the only thing so far
with a reasonable amount of common functionality.

I'm not sure how well this will be documented initially, but hopefully it
will be useful to get tape backup devices and such off the ground.

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