Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!orchid!tdwest
From: tdwest@orchid.waterloo.edu (Terry D. West)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: SCSI Speed (was Re: FFS speed.  Bytes/Bits per s)
Message-ID: <12330@orchid.waterloo.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 88 16:28:56 GMT
References: <8802251923.AA23029@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <3385@cbmvax.UUCP> <43597@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: tdwest@orchid.waterloo.edu (Terry D. West)
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In article <43597@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>                               And in truth the limiting factor becomes
>the SCSI interface, which in its Asynchronous mode is limited to 1.25
>Megabytes per second. 		  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I posted an article requesting info about the 2090, but nobody replied :-(
Is it kosher to send mail to CATS people?

I assume the 2090 cannot do Synchronous SCSI, but it would not be 
difficult at ALL to build a 5 MBYTE/s (yes 5x10^6 8 bit chunks/second)
synchronous SCSI host adapter for the amiga (I could do it in a weekend).  
Undoubtably, there are SCSI drives out there that can do synch 
(Adaptec's higher priced controllers can)... 

So can FFS handle a 5 Megabyte transfer rate?

BTW, when are we actually going to get FFS??? 
	(other than, as is usual, 3 weeks before the folks in the US do :-)

Terry D. West
4B Computer Science/ Elec Eng
watmath!orchid!tdwest