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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!matthews
- From: matthews@microsoft.com (Matthew Sorrels)
- Subject: Re: Why do I get CRC errors DLing to my Dataflyer at 14.4?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.094251.7536@microsoft.com>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 09:42:51 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1993Jan9.235112.13420@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan9.235112.13420@news2.cis.umn.edu> zant0001@student.tc.umn.edu (Eric Zanto) writes:
- >Why is it that I lose characters on my serial port when I access my hard
- >drive, connected to the Dataflyer SCSI? I just got it, and from what I've
- >heard it is different from the older ones they use to sell, which had more
- >jumpers on them. The one I have has the 2.0 Autoboot ROM(supports CBM
- >RDB) and has 6 chips on it. Not much there, a few latches, ROM, SCSI
- >chip. Does it use DMA now or something? My system seems to slow quite a
- >bit when it's accessed alot.
- >
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- I had this same problem with my Dataflyer SCSI without the RDB ROM. I
- called them up and they confirmed it was a problem. They finally
- finished the patch on Jan 6th and sent it to me by modem. If lots
- of people are interested I may be able to put it on an FTP site.
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- Matthew Sorrels
- matthews@microsoft.com | Std. Disclamiers apply
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