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- This is a minor update to the prior release of otronic.lzh for
- OSSI-OTRONIC-SCSI-controllers for A-500/1000.
- Now the driver tests every SCSI-device before sending commands.
- A typical situation is: Parall POWER-ON of a hard drive
- and rebooting the AMIGA. Now the driver sends a START UNIT command
- if the drive needs it for starting spinning up and then the
- driver waits until the drive is ready to accept further commands.
- If the drive's self test during spinning up fails the device driver checks
- this condition correctly and releases the faulty devices. The driver
- performs these steps for every SCSI id except 7. (The controller id)
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- Correct Supporting of Changeable Media like SyQuest drives
- still is a problem because this Low Cost Controller doesn't generate
- interrupts during the command phases (The INT-lines aren't connected to the
- ZORRO-bus), therefore it isn't possible to support RESELECT without
- CPU-intensive polling of the AM5380PC's control
- register for a RESELECT condition.
- The RESELECT feature makes it possible that the controller becomes
- a target.
-