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Subject: Re: ESDI vs SCSI
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Date: 9 Apr 89 19:25:03 GMT
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in article <6628@mrspoc.UUCP>, itkin@mrspoc.UUCP (Steven M. List) says:
> Can anyone out there educate me a bit?

I can't comment on ESDI vs SCSI. However, at work I have on my desk a 
12.5 MHz 286 box using a 40MB Quantum SCSI drive with SCO XENIX 2.2.3.
I am the only one hooked to the machine (w/ 4MB RAM). The through
is just fine. One word of warning, since the kernel needs the SCSI
driver installed, you have to gen a kernel on a machine with a normal AT
drive and make a new N1 disk. I assume this is the same case for ESDI.

I've always been under the impression that ESDI is faster than SCSI. Or
is this a mistaken impression? I think I can safely say that SCSI is
cheaper then ESDI.

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