Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 19:08:10 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: chat@freebsd.org Cc: rls@mail.id.net (Robert Shady) Subject: Re: Differential vs. Standard Message-ID: <199611291808.TAA26596@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199611291659.LAA24814@server.id.net> from Robert Shady at "Nov 29, 96 11:59:57 am"
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As Robert Shady wrote: > 2. What exactly does "Differential" mean? Does it help, or hurt? > Differential drives appear to cost slightly more than the standard > versions, which leads me to believe that they may be better in some > way shape or form. It has a better signal/noise ratio. Hence you're allowed to have longer cables. The downside: you need differential interfaces on _any and all_ devices on this bus, including but not limited the controller itself. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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