8 May
2007
8 May
'07
1:16 p.m.
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 13:59 -0400, der Mouse wrote:
I too have almost exactly the opposite experience. SCSI seems
ridiculously robust - I've discovered that SCSI buses, working for
months, were triple-terminated, and I even saw one mostly work once
that was quadruple-terminated. But USB has been flaky and an
incompatibility nightmare. (The latter being exactly what hardware
makers want, of course, because it sells *new* hardware.)
I've never really had problems with USB, but maybe that's because I pick
stuff I know will work.
USB?! USB?! :-) Urgh... SCSI, please...
USB:
Plug in, install drivers, play.
SCSI: Plug in, fiddle with terminators, play with cables, replace
cables, replace terminators, replace host adapter card, replace
terminators again, try with terminators on and off, try daisychaining
in various combinations, give up, go home. And, quite aside from that, SCSI is far more
backwards-compatible. USB
is quite recent. SCSI goes back to the '80s - and, what's more, it's
*compatible* all the way back to the '80s: I can take a disk that was
sold new with a Sun-2 and put it on my Athlon and have it Just Work,
and, conversely, I can take a brand new off-the-shelf SCSI disk and put
it on my Sun-2 and have it Just Work (well, except that I don't think I
*have* a Sun-2). (Sure, it'll stop down performance, but it'll work.)
You've obviously not had to deal with 80s and 90s audio equipment with
SCSI disks...
Gordon