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- From: tweten@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Dave Tweten)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Just how fast is SCSI-II, really?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.203358.12299@nas.nasa.gov>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:33:58 GMT
- References: <ke07uB2w165w@hale.cts.com> <yB8cVB1w165w@Fateepee.CAM.ORG> <BzMB0x.BGz@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <BzMB0x.BGz@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
- >In article <yB8cVB1w165w@Fateepee.CAM.ORG> tommy@Fateepee.CAM.ORG (Tommy Petrogiannis) writes:
- >
- >>There are 3 (actually 4) flavors of SCSI-II peripherals.
- >> 1) SCSI-II @ 5MB/sec (this is the 4th flavor but nobody should use it)
- >> 2) SCSI-II @ 10MB/sec (the majority of SCSI-II peripherals)
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I've heard this referred to as Fast-SCSI.
- >> 3) Wide SCSI-II @ 20MB/sec (uses a 16 bit data path)
- >> 4) Wide SCSI-II @ 40MB/sec (uses a 32 bit data path)
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Would this then be Fast Wide SCSI?
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- Both 3) and 4) are commonly called Fast Wide SCSI, and rarely implemented.
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