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From: donw@zehntel.zehntel.com (Don White)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard drive & chip contention
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Date: 10 Mar 89 20:39:24 GMT
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In article <8903071906.AA01731@jade.berkeley.edu> GIGUERE@WATCSG.BITNET (Eric Giguere) writes:
>The local Amiga dealer here is very reluctant about selling me a SCSI
>drive for my 2000 because he claims that anything more than 2 bitplanes
>causes mucho contention between the drive and the Amiga's graphics chips
>Eric Giguere

     The SCSI interface has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE GRAPHIC CHIPS!!!!

     Your local dealer is a bozo. 

     (And I am being gentle. 1/2 ;-) )

     I don't know where your dealer heard this, but is false. There may have 
     been something wrong with the SCSI (broken, misjumpered, whatever). But
     there is NO INHERENT problem with using one in an amiga.

     Don White
     Box 271177
     Concord, CA. 
     94527-1177
     zehntel!donw