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- From: wbennett@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (William F Bennett)
- Subject: Re: Problems with the A4000
- Message-ID: <1992Sep14.164526.13724@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
- Keywords: A4000, SCSI, IDE
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- Organization: The Ohio State University
- References: <1992Sep12.083819.17967@news.iastate.edu> <35058@cbmvax.commodore.c
- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 16:45:26 GMT
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- In article <35069@cbmvax.commodore.com> jesup@cbmvax.commodore.com (Randell Jes
- up) writes:
- >>
- >>Strike three, Marc. The thing Randell Jesup (I''m sure he'd appreciate it
- >>if you could spell his name correctly, BTW) did was to write some special
- >
- > Ken seems to have lost a line here - he probably meant to say that
- >I wrote some special _software_ to make IDE look like SCSI.
- >
- > The main point that Marc missed here is that I did all that work
- >(to make a scsi.device that actually is an IDE driver) for the A600. I did
- >almost no work for the A4000 version of IDE. The only differences was a
- >different interrupt routine (~30 lines), and some minor tweaks to the "is ther
- e
- >a drive out there" code. Say one day's work total.
- >
-
- I'm getting confused here. I have a 2000 with a GVP combo-board SCSI
- controller. Attached to it are several SCSI devices: Seagate 80 meg drive,
- Syquest 44meg Removable drive and a DMI floptical drive. Will I be able to use
- these drives (for which I have paid a lot of money) with the 4000. Will I need
- a SCSI controller card? Will the 4000 accept a SCSI card? Does this "look like
- SCSI" have any affect on my current drives?
-
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-
- >Randell Jesup, Jack-of-quite-a-few-trades, Commodore Engineering.
- >{uunet|rutgers}!cbmvax!jesup, jesup@cbmvax.cbm.commodore.com BIX: rjesup
- >Disclaimer: Nothing I say is anything other than my personal opinion.
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