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- From: cyblade@sd.cts.com (Cyan Blade)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Zip drive...~500K transfer rate?
- Date: 2 Apr 1996 22:27:30 GMT
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- : > Believe it. Taken right out of the Emplant documentation : "The SCSI interface
- : > uses the popular 53C80 SCSI IC. It is a fast and reliable SCSI controller. It is not
- : > SCSI-II. Transfer rates can be well over 1 megabyte per second depending on the
- : > processor your Amiga has and how fast the device you are using is. ..."
-
- : Didn't they had a lot of problems with timing and ended up using the
- : slower AMD 5380 chips ? I believe there were some free downgrades in
- : .emulations back then.
-
- A friend of mine has an A4000 with the Emplant deluxe board
- installed and has not been able to get his ZIP drive to run for more
- than 5 minutes at a stretch. In all his contacts with the Emplant
- people, the only thing consistently coming out of them is that they
- are aware of the problem. We have tried a variety of solutions, even
- attempting to install squirrel ZIP tools and nothing seems to fix it.
- The CDROM drive, an NEC 4X drive, runs on both the MAC and Amiga sides
- with no problem. No other drives are attached to the Emplant board.
- It appears that the makers of Emplant just did a poor job of implementing
- the SCSI controller. Kind of a bummer when you consider that the MAC
- emulation runs pretty well. My friend would really like to have
- access to the ZIP on both sides of the machine.
- If anyone has a ZIP running reliably on their Emplant would you
- e-mail the solution or the conditions that you established to get it
- to work?
- THX,
- CB
-
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