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- Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!thad
- From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Hard drives...
- Message-ID: <72606@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 22:39:41 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <34820@adm.brl.mil> <1hr2viINNq25@calvin.NYU.EDU>
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1hr2viINNq25@calvin.NYU.EDU>
- roy@mchip00.med.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
-
- | [...]
- | As far as I'm concerned, SCSI means Some Crappy Stupid Interface. I
- | guess it beats SMD, but it sure doesn't live up the the wonderful promises
- | it made (not to mention the random connector confusion; I know of 3 commonly
- | used connectors, and I havn't even mentioned the wierdo PowerBook SCSI
- | connector, but I guess that's understandable).
-
- As far as I'm concerned, "SGI = Stupid Goddamn Idiots" re: all the braindamage
- on the SCSI bus per comments earlier this year. Wrong ID for the host adapter,
- use of WD chip, inability to support a 6 meter SCSI bus with 4 devices, extreme
- sensitivity to cable impedance, etc.
-
- NO such problems with HP, Sun, Amiga, DEC, and Mac equipment on any of multiple
- systems (and the bad experiences with SGI SCSI is on more than one platform).
-
- Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com, thad@cup.portal.com ]
-