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- From: neurom@stein.u.washington.edu (Neuromancer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: Re: Question about Falcon SCSI-2 bus.
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 17:45:08 GMT
- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- In article <7168@tuegate.tue.nl> wmtwen@rw8.urc.tue.nl (Erlend Nagel) writes:
- >Hello,
- >
- >I have just finished reading a book that described some of the
- >functions of the SCSI bus (not SCSI-2).
- >One of the most interesting features of the SCSI bus was "bus
- >arbitration". This allows drives to temporarily disconnect from the bus
- >to free the bus so other drives and printers and so speed up all
- >communication. It could possibly even allow more than one computer to
- >share the same bus and drives.
- >Can the Falcon SCSI-2 bus do this too?
- >
- >Erlend.
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- Yes, it can. In fact, the SCSI-II interface can transfer data at up to 10Mb/sec!!!
- No more waiting, hu?
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