From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 13 22:31:20 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA09789 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 22:31:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [199.166.238.138]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA09780 for ; Wed, 13 Dec 1995 22:31:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from scrappy@localhost) by hub.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA14488; Thu, 14 Dec 1995 01:30:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 01:30:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Michael Smith cc: ejc@gargoyle.bazzle.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACER Motherboard: SCSI Recommendations? In-Reply-To: <199512141551.PAA25531@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 14 Dec 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > > Then again, am I reading "Fast/Wide" wrong? Should I be > > reading it as "Fast *or* Wide"? Cause, looking at Quantum's Home > > Page, the LPS340S supports Fast, but it doesn't mentioned Wide.. > > "Fast" is a prerequisite for any new disk; "wide" means the controller > has the extra bits required to talk to a "wide" SCSI device, should you > wish to connect one. > What does "wide" give? Increased communications speed to the drives? Less bus lag/contention? > If you want to look at one to verify this for yourself, the little resistor > packs should have '111' on them, but _not_ "221331" or "220/330" or similar. > And todays trick question...what do they mean? thanks for the answers... Marc G. Fournier | POP Mail Telnet Acct DNS Hosting scrappy@hub.org | WWW Services Database Services | Knowledge, soon to be: | | Information and scrappy@ki.net | WWW: http://hub.org | Communications, Inc