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- From: "Stefano Agostinelli" <agos001@pn.itnet.it>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Zip drive...~500K transfer rate?
- Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 19:03:30 +0100
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- Swiftshadow wrote in comp.sys.amiga.hardware about "Re: Zip drive...~500K
- transfer rate?":
- > : SCSI is crappy, not because it is SCSI I!
- >
- > Not exactly, the A3000 controller IS SCSI II. What it doesn't support is
- > SCSI Fast addition to the SCSI II protocol. I get somewhere in the
- > neighborhood of 3.5 megs with synchronous transfers enabled on my Quantum
- > Trailblazer 850. So don't blame the A3000 controller. It is quite
- > capable of recieving the data. As to whether Emplant SCSI is good or not
- > I am not sure. But I kind of doubt that Emplant would have put a SCSI I
- > controller in the Emplant board given the time it was made (The A3000 had
- > SCSI II and it was made back at beginning of the decade.)
-
- Well most people refer to SCSI II to mean SCSI II Fast (the one capable
- of 10Mb/s trasnfer rate).I'm not sure but vanilla SCSI (i.e. I) and SCSI
- II (not Fast) are quite the same thing.
- BTW what transfer rate are you getting from the TrailBlazer?
-
- Cheers
- Stefano
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