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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fred Fish on CDROM....now being advertised
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Date: 20 Sep 90 03:24:21 GMT
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In <42689@sequent.UUCP>, cseaman@sequent.UUCP (Chris "The Bartman" Seaman) writes:
>
>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?

No, you are absolutely right.

-larry

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