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From: rwm@atronx.UUCP (Russell McOrmond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: re: A2091 & Removable media
Message-ID: <1930.AA1930@atronx>
Date: 13 Feb 90 20:02:57 GMT
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>Short question:
>  Does the A2091 support removable media, eg SyQuest?

From what I know of the 2091, no.  Removable media drives require a bit of
a 'diskchange' to be issued each time the media is changed. Without this
being supported within the system, the possibility of errors cropping up
are quite high.  This is just a software limitation, though, as the Controller
itself does support those drives (AKA: Yes/NO is the answer).

  Question to Commodore : Are there any plans to update the ROMS for the
2091 to support removable media drives?  I work for a dealership in Ottawa
, and quite often a GVP controller (IE: NonDMA, etc) is sold due to these 
software limitations of the 2091 controller.  I hate to see people walk off
with something other than the BEST.  Also question : I remember hearing from
someone about some errors within the 2091 ROMS - did these errors really exist,
or was this yet another roumer spread for bad Publicity?

  Is there any programmers Docs available for the 2091?  I remember a discussion
with someone some time ago, and there was mention about SCSINet - A host
controller supposedly has the ability to run as a Slave as well as a host,
and the possibility of having more than one host controller on the same
chain exists - This concept extended, would give a very quick Local Area
Network (As well as automatic 'Drive Sharing' ;-).  The possibility of
inter-machine-task communication (Maybe using similar ideas to the DNET
concept, keeping compatable with existing code, etc - sounds very intersting).
Any comments on the possibilities?  I have a VERY limited knowledge of SCSI (I
have no idea where to start to look), so I do not know how possible any of these
things are.

>Mikael Karlsson, Lovsattersvagen 10, S-585 98  LINKOPING, SWEDEN
>micke@slaka.UUCP, micke@slaka.sirius.se
>{mcvax,munnari,seismo}!sunic!liuida!slaka!micke

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