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- From: peter@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Peter da Silva)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: ZIP vs SyQuest
- Date: 17 Jan 1996 16:17:46 -0600
- Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. +1 713 968 5800
- Message-ID: <4djsia$778@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>
- References: <4bq8mg$gp2@guava.epix.net> <1903.6588T778T2112@xmission.com> <4dggrf$8c6@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> <4dhh08$5k4@fcnews.fc.hp.com>
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- In article <4dhh08$5k4@fcnews.fc.hp.com>, Tom Kennedy <tomk@fc.hp.com> wrote:
- >Again, how so? What does this have to do with the Zip drive being set
- >to SCSI ID 5 or 6?
-
- Most PC SCSI cards map SCSI ID 0 to C: and SCSI ID 1 to D:, and won't boot
- off any other ID.
-
- >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.)
-
- Like this QIC tape drive I have here? I hate systems and devices that reserve
- specific target addresses (System V release 4 wants disks on 0-4 and tapes
- on 5 and 6, for example, another case where Zip is toast).
-
- Let's put it this way... there's no technical reason to limit the Zip to
- address 5 or 6. So why did they? What other shortcuts did they make?
- --
- If the best part of waking up is Folgers in the cup, you might as well
- stay in bed.
-
- <URL: http://bonkers.neosoft.com/~peter/ >
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