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- From: laurie@lknight.demon.co.uk (Laurie Knight)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: A3000 and SCSI-2?
- Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 20:28:47 GMT
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- >manderson@shure.com wrote:
- >: Does my A3000 need a SCSI hard drive, or can it take a SCSI-2 hard drive
- >: which seem to be much more common?
-
- >You can use any SCSI-2 hard drive. The A3000 has SCSI-2 integrated,
- >lacking only some features of SCSI-2/fast-scsi-2. You can also plug
- >fast-scsi-devices on the a3000, only "wide scsi" is not possible,
- >since the cables have the double width/more cable connections.
-
- Can you really use Fast-Scsi on an A3000 internal scsi adapter ? I assume that
- even if you get the fastest 7200rpm drive, it will bottle neck at the scsi host
- and not be much faster than my Quantum Fireball 1gb scsi... (I think this is a
- plain Scsi2 drive, someone correct me if I am wrong please ;)
-
- >You can plug up to 7 devices (hd, scanner, cd-rom) on the A3000, but
- >be sure to switch on termination for the last device in row and
- >select the right Id for each device - if two devices use the same ID,
- >the machine will not boot.
-
- I have no external termination, and can plug a dat drive on the external scsi
- port without problems, so I assume I have no internal termination on this end
- of the scsi chain... I have no scsi problems atm. (The dat has a termination
- pack on when in use)
-
- Take care.
-
- Laurie.
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