From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Nov 8 14:21:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA27174 for chat-outgoing; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 14:21:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA27128 for ; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 14:20:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id XAA26146 for chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 23:20:42 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id WAA07836; Sat, 8 Nov 1997 22:52:15 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19971108225215.ZD56214@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sat, 8 Nov 1997 22:52:15 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: hardware References: <19971108001615.TR41338@uriah.heep.sax.de> <199711080554.AAA02771@dyson.iquest.net> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199711080554.AAA02771@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Nov 8, 1997 00:54:49 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As John S. Dyson wrote: > You mean that the typical SCSI implementation doesn't have > surprises, complexities and bugs? I have yet to see a single SCSI disk drive that doesn't work out of the box. The only surprise i've seen so far was an HP drive that doesn't grok tagged commands. The only device i couldn't get to work in any useful way was the Iomega Floptical, but then, this was with FreeBSD 1.0 or 1.1, and since the drives proved to be crappy enough anyway, i didn't spend too much energy into them. This awfully looks like a much better success rate than IDE, where you often have to live with the surprise that two (out of two possible) disk drives of different vendors can't work together on a single bus. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)