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- From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon W{tte)
- Subject: Re: scsi-2 drives on ordinary mac
- In-Reply-To: weigert@etlhit.etl.go.jp's message of Wed, 29 Jul 1992 10:09:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <D88-JWA.92Jul29173751@dront.nada.kth.se>
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- Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 16:37:51 GMT
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- .jp> weigert@etlhit.etl.go.jp (Thomas Weigert) writes:
-
- Recently I have seen a lot of adds for scsi-2 based disks. Is it possible
- to use these disks with a normal mac, say a IIci, and hope that eventually
- my mac will have a faster scsi (via upgrade, or new purchase), but the disk
- will still be around?
-
- SCSI-II is a new command set. It doesn't say your drive is
- faster than a Mac can handle through normal SCSI. Almost NO
- drives around can pump data faster than present SCSI of
- fast macs can handle (Quadra 950) Just because it's SCSI-II
- doesn't mean it's fast.
-
- The IIci has a fast SCSI port too. However, to answer your
- question, yes, you can (usually) use a SCSI-II drive with
- your current mac.
-
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