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- From: fheitka@ibm.net (Fred Heitkamp)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Oktagon SCSI Controller support for Linux
- Date: 17 Feb 1996 13:23:35 GMT
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- Michel Pauze (madness@vianet.on.ca) wrote:
- : >I put a 6.10 ROM in my Oktagon. It does seem to respond a bit faster now.
- : >It did not help my Archive problem, but some folks have suggested another
- : >angle, changing the tape buffer size. Now, if I only can find out how to
- : >do that...
- :
- : I had to change the buffer size to 64k with my gvp controller also to
- : get my Archiver Viper 150 to work. Reselection must be off and synchronous
- : transfer used. This was easy to set with Amiback and I have had no problems
- : with the same settings after migrating from a2000/gvp22mhz to a4000/oktagon.
- :
- I tried changing the buffer size to 32k, and it seemed to help some. It
- did not get rid of the SCSI buss lockups when verifying or restoring.
-
- Fred Heitkamp
-