Jules Richardson wrote:
Roy J. Tellason wrote:
I've never personally found SCSI to be all
that hard to deal with.
Nor me. The trick for me was always to buy good-quality cables and
terminators, and to adhere to maximum cable lengths. I've had far more
trouble
getting pairs of IDE devices playing well together than
I've ever had
getting
SCSI stuff working.
The early problems (with SCSI-1) were down to differing interpretations
of the spec (what was mandatory, what was not etc.) Plus the usual
amount of works-OK-until-stressed stuff.
If you were just doing PC stuff and were using disks expected to be
sold into that environment you were probably OK. A slow ISA bus and
a largely single-tasking environment (under DOS) would have prevented
you seeing the various issues that drives had when hit hard.
Trying anything other than a disk (a tape, for example) on anything
other than the platform for which it was intended was "fun".
Antonio