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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: SCSI: Whatzit?
Message-ID: <7413@well.UUCP>
Date: 19 Oct 88 06:47:13 GMT
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Organization: Amiga Biotechnology Labs and Nuclear Test Grounds, Nevada.
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	A learned friend of mine explained to me that he doesn't like SCSI.
His reasoning is that nearly every SCSI drive is different, and that you
have to write a different device driver for nearly every drive you come
across.  This evidently has something to do with the fact that no two drive
manufacturers return the same error codes.

	He personally perfers ST506.  However, I thought ST506 was a
dinosaur, and SCSI beat it in terms of transfer speed and media size.  He
likes ST506 because you can plug any ST506 drive in the world into an ST506
controller, and it'll work.  This is apparently not true of SCSI.

	Now, seeing as how I'm getting closer and closer to the day when I
buy a hard disk (no, I don't have one yet), I want to make certain that I do
it right.  So could someone please explain to me what's what, and the
advantages and pitfalls of both formats.

	Something tells me it's probably best to send answers via mail,
unless you feel your information would be of general interest.

	Thanks.

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