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- From: Jeff Grimmett <jgrimm@sdd.hp.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: SCSI-I / SCSI-II compatability
- Date: 23 Jan 1996 19:58:47 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company
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- gruel@hondo.cyberverse.com (Nick) wrote:
-
- >overwhelming - no problemo. The only thing lost is whatever benefits one
- >would get from the SCSI-II extensions beyond SCSI-I. From what I've
- >gathered, performance would be bottlenecked at the SCSI-I level
- >regardless of the drive.
-
- Depends. As I stated earlier, putting a 9ms access SCSI-II drive on my
- 3000 took it to the max for SCSI transfers -- in other words, the
- controller became the bottleneck, where before it was the DRIVE that was
- the bottleneck. If you're not achieving full 5 MB/sec speeds now, you
- probably WILL with a SCSI-II drive (guess it really depends on your
- controller).
-
- I don't know if I could ever go back :-)
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