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- From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: SLS is awesome and getting larger
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.155124.27004@colorado.edu>
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- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- References: <1992Aug26.125143.17176@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Aug27.014350.21903@muddcs.claremont.edu> <cebB_7a00WCX0E5HxD@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:51:24 GMT
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- In article <cebB_7a00WCX0E5HxD@andrew.cmu.edu> "Brian E. Gallew" <geek+@CMU.EDU> writes:
- >>Actually, Linux also supports several other SCSI controllers, the
- >>ST01/2 (Seagate) being among them, and those are s'posed to be dirt
- >>cheap.
- >
- >As the proud owner of an ST01, my advice is:
- >Spend the extra bucks to get a real controller!
- >
- >I tried to plug a Wang SCSI tape drive into it last night, but the
- >ST01 only talks to hard drives (and probably Seagate ones at that).
-
- Wrong. The Seagate talks to anything you have a driver for -
- note that there is no publically available tape driver for
- Linux. There is a Seagate tape driver for DOS though, you
- might check the FTP sites for it.
-
- >Also, the nicer cards give a lot better performance.
-
- Agreed.
-
- >
- >Don't get me wrong, the ST01 is completely function (for what it
- >does), but I think that in the long run you will be disappointed.
-
- Of course, if cost is the only criteria, $20 is a drop in the
- bucket compared to an Adaptec.
- --
- Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows,
- IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but
- marketing's sins don't come close to those of legal departments.
- Boycott AT&T for their absurd anti-BSDI lawsuit.
-