From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed Jun 28 10:14:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from infoseek.com (corp.infoseek.com [204.162.98.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B8937BD25 for ; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:14:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from craig.shaver@corp.go.com) Received: from maude.infoseek.com (maude [172.17.64.34]) by infoseek.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA12037; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:14:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from corp.go.com (maude [172.17.64.34]) by maude.infoseek.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA20610; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:14:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <395A3260.2CA2E6BE@corp.go.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 10:14:08 -0700 From: "Craig W. Shaver" Organization: InfoSeek Corporation, Santa Clara, CA X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: af, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: steinyv Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SCSI References: <4.2.0.58.20000628124941.009ad100@> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org steinyv wrote: > > Please excuse me, but does a differential scsi card differ from a regular > one, in what way? Could I use them with FBSD? What should I look out for? > Thank You gurus > :) > > _________________________________________ > Steiny's Studio > Pachyderm Productions > http://steiny.hypermart.net > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message Differential has different signal characteristics. I am no expert, but from what I know you can chain more scsi devices to a differential and use longer cables without degradation of the signal. You have to use different drives with it. Should be the same software driver as regular scsi. -- cshaver@infoseek.com (408)543-6451 Craig Shaver, Productivity Group POB 60458 Sunnyvale, CA 94088 (650)390-0654 http://www.progroup.com/ mailto:craig@progroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message