Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!princeton!njin!rutgers!att!alberta!calgary!dataspan!deraadt From: deraadt@dataspan.UUCP (Theo De Raadt) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Non Disk SCSI Devices with A2090A Summary: 2090A, how? Message-ID: <266@dataspan.UUCP> Date: 10 Dec 88 06:59:25 GMT References: <5883@louie.udel.EDU> Organization: DataSpan Inc., Calgary AB Canada Lines: 29 In article <5883@louie.udel.EDU>, Ata@radc-multics.arpa (John G. Ata) writes: > The A2090a is capable of attaching multiple SCSI devices. Was wondering > if it were possible to attach a non-disk type SCSI device such as a > streamer-tape. Can this be done??? It appears that probably a device > controller would have to be written to do this. If this is true, does > anyone know where I could get info on how to do this. Of course, if one > already exists, I would be extremely interested in that also. I am very interested in how exactly we could talk to this 2090A card, does the 2090 support talking to ANY SCSI device, because I would guess that SCSI tape drives are a little funny to talk to, as opposed to hard drives. Man, sure will be better than the sun we have anyways.. everytime that we write to our SCSI tape, the SCSI disk drive sorta becomes soooooo slow, because they disable the drive when sending to the tape drive, and I'd guess about 20% thoughput..... yuk.. glad my account is not on there!