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- From: de351@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (K. C. Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: WD33C93A @ 14MHZ?
- Date: 3 Apr 1996 13:48:33 GMT
- Organization: The National Capital FreeNet
- Sender: de351@freenet6.carleton.ca (K. C. Lee)
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- Jes Degn Soerensen (jds@kom.auc.dk) writes:
-
- >>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Marlowe <gsmarlow@ouray.cudenver.edu> writes:
- >
- > Scott> I seem to remember seeing somewhere that AMD makes a 14MHz
- > Scott> version of the 33C93A chip, and that the 2091 has a jumper to
- > Scott> change the freq on the scsi chip from 7 to 14 MHz. If you have
- > Scott> this 14MHz chip in and run it at 14MHz, do scsi transfer rates
- > Scott> increase at all?
-
- The clock input controls the internal timing and possibly the SCSI timing.
- So I guess it is one of those try it at you own risk situation as you
- might be pushing the SCSI specs. :) When I was playing around with my
- hard drive controller, my 1 gig HD decided to a low level format. :(
-
- > Under all circumstances, you will need to change the driver code so
- > the clock divisor is set according to the new speed. Besides that,
-
- Would it just be easier just to reprogram the clock divisor itself than
- playing with jumpers ? Afterall that's what you are after anyway.
-
- > there is no guarantee that it will actually work - since you don't
- > know if the dma between the 33c93 and the DMAC will work.
-
- The DMA part should work, but I don't know whether or not you'll get any
- performance increases with that as it is one of the bottlenecks (at least
- with the 2091). There might be a reason why the 14MHz jumper wasn't set.
-
- > I was looking at this some time ago, but newer finished it as I had
- > some problems getting hold of the chip (20MHz). I haven't resigned yet
- > though, just don't know when I'll find the time :-)
-
- AMD 2nd source Am33C93A. It'll go from 8MHz to 20MHz. Might want to also
- check out Jameco. They were carrying WD33C93 parts a while back.
-
- > Jes Sorensen: jds@kom.auc.dk | If programming was ment to be fun,
- > jes@leech.adsp.sub.org | why did they come up with Intel?
-
- K. C. Lee
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