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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: SCSI questions
- Message-ID: <1992Dec19.034618.23540@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 03:46:18 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <1992Dec18.215923.1922@netcom.com>
- Keywords: SCSI, Nubus
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- In article <1992Dec18.215923.1922@netcom.com> sjk@netcom.com (Shel Kaphan) writes:
- >
- >I have some questions about hooking things up to the Mac SCSI bus.
- >
- >- Are there any Nubus boards that give you a second SCSI bus? If so,
- Yes, but I don't know any more information. There are several SCSI-2
- card makers and at least one I saw makes a mirroring system.
-
- >- If one wanted to hook up a "raw" disk drive, i.e. one that does NOT
- >contain a filesystem (but IS formatted!), is it necessary to supply a
- >driver? Or can one simply get bits on/off it using the SCSI manager?
- >Or does the SCSI manager somehow depend on the driver being there?
-
- The driver is just a layer (of sanity, one might say) over the SCSI
- manager. If you can stomach programming the SCSI manager, you can use
- the disk drive raw.
-
-
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