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- From: tomk@fc.hp.com (Tom Kennedy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ZIP vs SyQuest
- Date: 17 Jan 1996 00:48:08 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Fort Collins Site
- Message-ID: <4dhh08$5k4@fcnews.fc.hp.com>
- References: <4bq8mg$gp2@guava.epix.net> <1228.6586T617T2608@grape.epix.net> <4ddpdb$h0m@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <1903.6588T778T2112@xmission.com> <4dggrf$8c6@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
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- Peter da Silva (peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM) wrote:
- : In article <1903.6588T778T2112@xmission.com>,
- : John S. Burger <jsburger@xmission.com> wrote:
- : >I don't see what the big deal is about the ZIP only using SCSI 5 or 6.
-
- : It means if you have two other drives you can't boot off the Zip.
-
- Huh?? How so? Under OS 2.x or higher, the SCSI ID has nothing to do with
- what drive you boot off of. The "BootPri" is what determines that.
-
- : It means if you want to use the Zip on a PC too, you can't boot off it at
- : all.
-
- Again, how so? What does this have to do with the Zip drive being set
- to SCSI ID 5 or 6?
-
- Unless you want to have three Zip drives, this is completely
- irrelevant. (Or more correctly, unless you have more then two SCSI
- devices that can only be set to ID 5 or 6.)
-
- Tom Kennedy
-