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From: cseaman@sequent.UUCP (Chris "The Bartman" Seaman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fred Fish on CDROM....now being advertised
Message-ID: <42689@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 20 Sep 90 00:10:41 GMT
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sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
< >> Question: it is my understanding that these systems are sold "complete",
< >> as in packaged with a SCSI interface.  I don't suppose Xetec sells them
< >> without an interface?  
< 
< I didn't read anything like that in the ad. It may come with a SCSI
< interface but that is not the same as a SCSI controller. The controller
< sits in your computer, the interface would be the part that sits on the
< the drive that talks to your controller and the drive.

Ummm, I don't want to pick nits, but the terminology here disagrees
with the way I learned SCSI technology.  The way I learned it, the
'interface' on the drive is actually the controller (it 'knows'
everything about that PARTICULAR drive, and how to efficiently
communicate with it), and the unit that sits on the Amiga's (or other
highly sophisticated, powerful computer :-) ) bus is a Host Adapter,
which communicates with the various controllers on the SCSI bus.

Am I totally off base here?

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