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- From: pwright@crash.cts.com (Phil Wright)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ZIP vs SyQuest
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 23:50:49 GMT
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- On 16-Jan-96 20:39:27, Peter da Silva was reported to have said:
-
- >>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.
-
- Not true. I can choose to boot off of any one of the 5 drives connected to
- my system including the Zip. You've been using Amigas long enough to know
- better. :-)
-
- The real downside to only 2 selectable SCSI id's for the Zip is you can
- only have 2 of them connected to a single controller.
-
- >If you want to use the Zip on a PC too, you can't boot off
- >it at all.
-
- That's not the Zip's fault. That's crappy PC SCSI controller design. Not
- that you would ever want to boot up a PC with a Zip. 100MB isn't really
- enough to hold Windows and any kind of an useful app.
-
- pwright@crash.cts.com
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