18 Oct
2006
18 Oct
'06
1:59 p.m.
On 10/18/2006 at 2:54 PM Jules Richardson wrote:
My perception is perhaps colored by my involvement with the field and, in
particular, SCSI tape drives. It never failed that we'd get at least one
support call a week saying something like "I got tape drive A, SCSI adapter
B and system C and it doesn't work." Where A B and C changed very
frequently. In particular, early SCSI was colored with devices that
*almost* behaved like the spec, but did something a bit peculiar, leading
to grief.
Cheers,
Chuck
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.