30 Dec
2000
30 Dec
'00
2:11 a.m.
From: Richard Erlacher <edick(a)idcomm.com>
Well, Allison, you're memory's getting to be
like mine. I've got three
of
the 2266's and they all seem to agree they're
about 1GB in capacity.
Well, I knew it wasnt a 1mb drive as the smallest thing I'd ever seen as
scsi
was 10mb.
BTW, the drives don't seem to have a problem with
the SCSI-1/SCSI-2
thing,
but the software, often written the way it is because
the authors
weren't
born before SCSI-2, don't realize that they get the
same effect using
the
SCSI-1 command set. As stupidly as SCSI is used on
PC's, no overlapped
seeks, no command queuing, no disconnect, little use of synchronous
mode,
they're not even getting SCSI-1 performance.
No question about that. PC software and OSs generally dont use scsi
well.
My standard of comparison is PDP-11/RSTS or RSX and VAX/VMS where
they work a disk hard!
Allison