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From: majka@cs.ubc.ca (Marc Majka)
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Subject: Re: SEND ME SCSI DRIVE INFO!!!  (please?)
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Date: 21 Jan 91 20:20:32 GMT
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William Jon Shipley writes:
>I'd like to create a database of SCSI drives that hopefully work with
>the NeXT.

There are three issues here:
1: Does it work on a NeXT
2: How do you get it working
3: Cost, performance, etc

I don't think there is much use in collecting information about
point 1.  I have yet to see a SCSI drive that *doesn't* work on a NeXT.
It may be more useful to address point 2.  In most cases, you just plug
it in and go, but there are some like Fujitsu drives, which need a
couple of jumpers pulled.  Point 3 varies greatly from place to place,
and prices are dropping fast enough that any database would be out of
date in a month.  Performance specs might be interesting.

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Marc Majka
System Manager - UBC Computer Science