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- From: baffoni@aludra.usc.edu (Juxtaposer)
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- Subject: Re: Falcon and A/D
- Date: 30 Aug 1992 08:46:28 -0700
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- References: <1992Aug27.081037.19661@hsr.no> <1992Aug27.155705.264@athena.cs.uga.edu> <ABADDON.92Aug28111551@suprenum.supr.scm.liv.ac.uk>
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- In article <ABADDON.92Aug28111551@suprenum.supr.scm.liv.ac.uk> abaddon@supr.scm.liv.ac.uk (Kevin o donovan) writes:
- >>>>>> On 27 Aug 92 15:57:05 GMT, kjohnson@castor.cs.uga.edu (Kristopher Johnson) said:
- >
- >> SCSI II (50-pin SCSI II connector)
- >Will a standard SCSI drive plug straight into a SCSI 2 interface (allowing for
- >recabling it)? Would it show any improvement in speed like this?
-
- Well, as far as plugging a SCSI-1 into a SCSI-2 socket, I was told that
- this is indeed possible, but someone on the net said that the SCSI-2 connector
- on the back of a TT is different. Now, he has not responded to my questioning
- of this, and no one else has spoken up about this, but I am still pretty sure
- that it is a plug and go proposition as SCSI-2 is completely backward
- compatable with SCSI-1. However, this may only refer to the 50-pin
- implementation.
-
- However, you cannot get the same performance out of SCSI-1 hard disk
- connect to a SCSI-2 bus, as you will with a SCSI-2 drive. SCSI-2 incorporates
- a faster communicating speed, a "burst access" mode, and a "wide SCSI"
- utilization which is a SCSI bus that transfers information over a bus wider
- than SCSI-1's 8bit bus (not necessarily all implemented by HD manufacturers, or
- controller manufacturers for that matter).
-
- >
- >Kev
-
- -Mike
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