CompuServe Messages

> Why do the docs for my PAS 16 say that the Xfer rate is limited to 690KB/s? >Fine for my CD, but I'm not going to choke down my SCSI hard drive like that, >so I'm stuck with two Host Adaptors, also. They also should have stuck a >floppy controller on there if they wanted to do it right. A floppy controller??!? Next you'll be wanting a boot ROM. Actually we've been talking about a boot ROM option in the future. Apparently Trantor gets many calls asking for this. I predicted someone would then want a floppy controller. If we add much more, someone's likely to say: "Hey, just add 386SX to the sound board and you've got a PC!" The PAS 16 SCSI controller is a good low-end CD-ROM controller and a convenient SCSI hard disk controller. The I/O addresses the PAS 16 SCSI hardware uses are invisible to the system. That means they can't conflict with other adapters. No DMA's to set, No IRQ's. If you're running OS/2 and have some devices on the PAS 16 SCSI port and other drives on another adaptor, the PAS 16 can be reading while the other device is writing. That's not possible using a single SCSI controller; it can only service one device operation at a time. Ken