18 Oct
2020
18 Oct
'20
1:48 p.m.
On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 11:17 AM Jules Richardson via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
The big question is whether in a Flyer environment the
drives run custom
microcode or will have been LLFed to something other than a "standard" 512
byte block size - I believe that the Flyer was really pushing the
boundaries of what was possible when it was current, and the majority of
drives on the market just didn't have the necessary throughput (I see a
"Newtek approved" sticker on one of the Seagates). I know that the storage
was considered "proprietary", but I don't know if that just means that the
filesystem was Flyer-specific (i.e. not AFFS), or if there was more to it
than that.
Have you been through the old Flyer forums at:
https://forums.newtek.com/forumdisplay.php/101-Amiga-Video-Toaster-Flyer-FA…
the FAQ posts and the sub-forums there for the Flyer look like they
contain lots of hints at least, like:
https://forums.newtek.com/showthread.php/6258-Does-the-Flyer-Work-With-Curr…
"Platforms: 2000 3000 3000T 4000 4000T
Yes, the Flyer will work with most current SCSI drives. The Flyer's
minimum requirement is for SCSI-2 Fast hard drives, since the Flyer
uses SCSI-2 Fast controllers. Current generation drives will negotiate
with the host controller to which they are attached, to discover what
mode the controller itself uses. The drive will then adjust to operate
as though it were just a SCSI-2 Fast hard drive." [...]
etc.