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Date:      Sat, 8 Nov 1997 22:52:15 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: hardware
Message-ID:  <19971108225215.ZD56214@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199711080554.AAA02771@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Nov 8, 1997 00:54:49 -0500
References:  <19971108001615.TR41338@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199711080554.AAA02771@dyson.iquest.net>

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As John S. Dyson wrote:

> You mean that the typical SCSI implementation doesn't have
> surprises, complexities and bugs?

I have yet to see a single SCSI disk drive that doesn't work out of
the box.  The only surprise i've seen so far was an HP drive that
doesn't grok tagged commands.  The only device i couldn't get to work
in any useful way was the Iomega Floptical, but then, this was with
FreeBSD 1.0 or 1.1, and since the drives proved to be crappy enough
anyway, i didn't spend too much energy into them.

This awfully looks like a much better success rate than IDE, where you
often have to live with the surprise that two (out of two possible)
disk drives of different vendors can't work together on a single bus.

-- 
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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