colin@watcsc.waterloo.edu (Colin Plumb) (09/13/89)
(This is off-topic for comp.arch; see the Followup-To: line) In article <22011@cup.portal.com> cliffhanger@cup.portal.com (Cliff C Heyer) writes: >What about SYNCHRONOUS SCSI in the Amiga? (4.0MB/sec) Or DMA & memory >can't handle it at this speed(?) The Microbotics HardFrame can do synchronous SCSI whenever they get the drivers written. My problem is finding a drive that can do it. >Do sync & async are about the same cost? Why use synchronous SCSI vs. >async? Sync is considerably more complex, and chips to support it are a more recent development. But it's a few times faster, and nothing is ever too fast... -- -Colin Plumb