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- From: koren@fc.hp.com (Steve Koren)
- Subject: Re: Recording animations to tape in real time
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 23:24:42 GMT
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- Bob Burdeau (bburdeau@redorc.chi.il.us) wrote:
- > 10 megs a second? I thought that was the limit of SCSI-2 (the faster SCSI), is
- > it not?
-
- I think SCSI-1 vs. SCSI-2 doesn't have any real impact on the speed -
- its mostly a protocol difference. At least as I understand it (I've
- been wrong before :-) ). You can use a SCSI-1 controller with a SCSI-2
- device with no troubles, on the same bus.
-
- However, what matters a lot whether it is differential SCSI or single
- ended SCSI, and whether it is wide SCSI vs normal SCSI. Single ended
- SCSI uses even pins 2 through 16 as low true data pins, most odd pins
- are ground, and the rest are other junk like ACK, SEL, etc.
- Differential SCSI, on the other hand, uses both high true and low true
- versions of the data bits - some of the ground leads (3 through 19 odd)
- are replaced with high true data bits. This does some funky thing with
- the electrical properties which means they can run it faster. But
- obviously, differential SCSI devices are not compatible with
- single-ended SCSI controllers, and vice versa. All SCSI controllers for
- the amiga that I know of are single-ended SCSI. Differential SCSI is
- popular on workstations. Also, differential SCSI requires a 50 pin
- connector, (obviously), where single-ended SCSI can be run on the 25 pin
- connectors that Amigas sometimes use for external devices.
-
- I believe wide-SCSI uses 16 data pins instead of 8, but I'm not entirely
- sure there.
-
- A friend of mine who writes SCSI drivers for workstations says:
-
- "There are only two legit SCSI bus speeds: 5 Mb/sec and 20 Mb/sec.
- Some controllers claim 10 Mb/sec, but they get it by running 5 Mb/sec
- beyond spec. This is dangerous and prone to failure."
-
- (Funny, I always thought 10 Mb/sec was real.)
-
- Of course, the bandwidth of your SCSI bus has very little to do with
- your actual xfer speeds, since most affordable drives don't go nearly
- that fast anyway. And you may not be able to snarf the data up as fast
- as your drive/controller/bus can supply it.
-
- - steve
-