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I sometimes feel like I'm the only person who has never had big problems with SCSI, even with external cases and chaining a bunch of drives.

Though it sure is fun to talk about the ritual of the two terminations.



You're not the only one. I've used SCSI with Classic Macs, SGI/IRIX and Sun/SunOS and never had a problem.

On Windows/Linux/FreeBSD/x86 I've had many problems setting things up and getting decent throughput and I think it's just I've always had cheap/old/dubious SCSI cards.


It seemed usually only a "problem" initially when setting things up. I had a homebuilt system with:

- Adaptec AHA-2940U2W w/ internal and external ports

- IBM UltraStar 9 GB (!) U2W 25L1910

- SCSI Plextor CD burner (before DVDs existed)

- IOmega ZIP External SCSI drive

- Plextor External SCSI CD changer

- SCSI scanner

- Internal TEAC SCSI 3.5" floppy drive

- Internal SCSI tape drive

For the era, SCSI worked pretty well. That was back in the day when I had an early Zalman copper CPU heatsink with its 7k RPM, 1U-server-loud Delta fan.




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