Subject: Re: Apollo 4040 SCSI
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
From: Jakob Menzi <jmenzi@freesurf.ch>
List: port-amiga
Date: 07/14/2002 19:19:57
>
> > Is there a chance that the Apollo 4040 SCSI interface will be supported
in
> > the future?
>
> Get the docs and write support. But as far as I know, it is a polled-only
> programmed-i/o-only interface, so I guess using the Amiga 4000 IDE port
> won't be much slower. And I am NOT sure that the known timing problems of
> Apollo boards can be worked around by not using DMA.
Are there some docs available for download on the web?
I didn't find a lot of information there.
Is the interface a clone of a well known scsi controller chip?
IDE is fine, but I have also some SCSI devices (e.g. Tape).
Regards
Jakob