[comp.sys.amiga] SCSI bus tester

stephen@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Stephen Holmstead) (08/17/90)

[long live the line-eater...]

I am looking into using an A3000 or A2500 to do some SCSI bus testing.
Are there any applications out there that I can use to pretty much beat
the bus with a variety of different SCSI commands?  If not, how
difficult would it be to write a program to send SCSI commands directly?
Would this change depending on which SCSI card I chose (eg. A2091, GVP,
Trumpcard, etc.)?  Would I have to write a custom device driver?

We are currently using mostly IBM clones to do this testing, but they
have the stupid problem of not being able to transfer more than 64 Kb in
a single command (due to the idiotic segmentation scheme of the 8086
family of CPUs).  Do any Amiga SCSI cards have maximum transfer
limitations?

I would really like to be able to place the Amiga in this openning as
opposed to using some other (more expensive or less powerful) machine.
It would be very good press for the Amiga (are you listening,
Commodore?).

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