Re: SUMMARY: SS1+ able to do synchronous SCSI?

• In reply to: Marcus Woinke: "SUMMARY: SS1+ able to do synchronous SCSI?"
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In article <LHAJBGOE@cccp.north.de> marcus@cccp.north.de (Marcus Woinke) writes:
/Marcus Woinke (marcus@cccp.north.de) wrote:
/: Have a SPARCstation 1+ (an Opus clone) the capability to work
/: in synchronous mode?
/
/The solution is:
/ echo '_esp_ss1_esp0sync?W 1' | adb -w /vmunix >/dev/null
/
/
/Thanks to all who replied, especially to:
/ etsung@sfu.ca

I have a question - why is it about SPARCstation 1's that prevents one
from being able to use synch mode on its SCSI? IF it is possible,
the drive I am using does support it, (Fujitsu M2694ESA), so it would
be nice to gain the throughput possible with synch mode, if it can
be done...

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