SCSI pros & cons - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

12 Oct 2001

I wrote:

...
  > If you have a pile of cards, one machine, and
none
 >of the cards work in that specific box, I'd suggest that there may be a
 >fault in the box, or another device in there which conflicts with your SCSI
...
  >cards. 
Iggy replied:

...
  Who cares what the cause is? The point is that it
won't work. 
???  Well, *I* care what the cause is.  If you put a piece of hardware in a
system and it doesn't work,  don't you want to know why???  I don't
understand this.

...
  I see that BIOS setup utility on the cards as a
sympthom of the low level of
...
  integration. The cards behave as an alien entity in
the computer. 
???  Okay, so you have to integrate the card into the system yourself, and
that setup utility gives you the information and control you need to do it.
 Alien entity?  What do you mean???

Glen
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