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- From: giltner@pogo.Colorado.EDU (Jon Giltner)
- Subject: Re: 3 peeves re: Ultrix 4.3
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.160317.4836@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:03:17 GMT
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- ajc@pa.dec.com (AJ Casamento) writes:
-
- > We've had great success with this effort. I've gotten a number of written
- >statements from SCSI peripheral vendors saying how easy it is to port to the
- >DEC SCSI CAM implementation (and I didn't even solicit them...in fact, one guy
- >stood up in a customer seminar in France and just gushed for 10 minutes about
- >it...not that I minded). It means that non-storage devices don't have to play
- >at being tape drives any more. It means that as other vendors complete their
- >CAM implementations you'll get closer and closer to the "plug-n-play" world you
- >originally thought you had when you bought SCSI. It also means a much easier
- >time for DEC in terms of adding new SCSI products and qualifying them.
-
- > SCSI CAM is worth it.
-
- Amidst the gushing there are those of who still must ask why DEC is so
- braindead about their SCSI. Strictly from a user's point of view, I don't
- see any difference between having to edit the very cryptic /sys/data/cam_data.c
- to define a new disk or tape device vs. editing /sys/data/scsi_data.c file.
- And to top it off, as for "plug-and-play", what's the logic behind having
- the predefined Exabyte Exb-8500 entry in cam_data.c key on the drive
- identifying itself as a "DEC TKZ09" instead of "EXABYTE EXB-8500"? SCSI CAM
- really did nothing to facilitate plug-and-play SCSI on Ultrix.
-
-
- Jon
- --
- Jon Giltner
- Computing and Network Services University of Colorado
- (giltner@spot.Colorado.EDU) Boulder
-