Labels:book | bulletin board | earth | reckoner | sky OCR: Introduction to SCSI on the Macintosh Every Macintosh since the Mac Plus has a Small Computer System Interface (SCSI). It allows you to connect up to seven external devices to your computer The Macint tosh Operating System OS nowadays known as MacOS contains software that deals with the low level protocol used on the SCSI bus to transfer data from or to a device This part of system software is the SCSI Manager It knows how to drive the lines on the cable (by talking to the SCSI controller chip built into the Mac) but has no idea of what kind of device it's talking to. SCSI Manager just transfers bytes from or to a peripheral so for it scanner or hard disk is the same thing: Simply SCSI device that can submit or receive data To use hard disk to store and retrieve data the os needs additiona ...
