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- From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Will 1200 run IDE (now) and SCSI (later)
- Message-ID: <37147@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 23:19:37 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.160504.16331@rdg.dec.com> <1992Nov18.042903.4021@sol.cs.wmich.edu>
- Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
- Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
- Lines: 25
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- In article <1992Nov18.042903.4021@sol.cs.wmich.edu> 22black@sol.cs.wmich.edu (Martin Black) writes:
- > hilton@leechs.lzo.dec.com (Greg Hilton) writes:
- >
- >
- > >Hiya,
- >
- > >I have a large SCSI drive I would want to
- > >put on a 1200 eventually.
- >
- > >If I got a 20mb IDE 1200 now would this prevent
- > >me adding SCSI via the trapdoor later?
- >
- > certainly not. That is if you get from a different company than cbm.
- > They will use their own driver er scsi.device. And if you get a cbm one
- > then I am sure they will rewrite the scsi.device to work with it or it might
- > already might work for it.
-
- This doesn't make a bit of sense. The system software already knows how
- to support mulitiple "scsi drivers" and one would assume that the putative
- SCSI adapter would include a driver...
-
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