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From: mjacob@wonky.Eng.Sun.COM (Matt Jacob)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Is DEC RZ23 real SCSI?
Keywords: Does DEC use some odd proprietary controller query scheme?
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Date: 4 Jun 90 02:34:41 GMT
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In article <5454@crltrx.crl.dec.com> jg@zorch.crl.dec.com (Jim Gettys) writes:
>Experience has shown, however, that SCSI is far from the
>tightest specification in the world.  When we started hooking up
>other SCSI devices to DECstations, there was about a 50% chance
>they would work (to my knowledge, it our case, it was always microcode
>problems with the SCSI peripherals; in your case, it could be either
>the drive or your controller); this percentage has
>been increasing with time, as people get their implementations
>conformant to the specification, and the specification gets better
>understood by the implementors  (moral is:  KISS...  SCSI violates
>this rule...).

Weak, buddy. Real weak. This would have been a truer statement 3-4
years ago, but not for the last couple of years.

-matt jacob
 Sun Microsystems