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Re: I Hate SCSI !!!
« on: February 09, 2009, 02:33:42 AM »
SCSI *IS* a pain if you're not used to them. Are you trying to use the same drive with all those cards? If so, make sure it is terminated properly and that you change your device driver to its appropriate designation. In other words, make sure HDTools (or whatever) knows you've got a SCSI card named xxxxxxxSCSI.device   (usually has the card or brand name and then the SCSI trailer).

In the early days, Amiga used to be known for its seemingly "plug and play" attributes. Yeah, right. You've got to take your sally by the hand and tell her EXACTLY what is going on, else things do not work right.  


 

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Re: I Hate SCSI !!!
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2009, 07:48:29 PM »
Within the past few years, various friends have literally given me their companies old Dell servers. Talk about heavy metal! I used one as weight in the back of my trunk one winter. lol  But to those that think SCSI is "dead"... each one of those servers had a wicked SCSI setup in 'em. I've got about 12 drives over here and a couple of PCI<>SCSI2 cards just waiting to be used. And like another user posted... get yourself those 50 pin adapters and you'll be golden!!    

Funny though... the CD-ROMS, floppies and DAT/tape backup units were all IDE in those systems.