Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:05:37 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu> To: Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/handbook scsihd.sgml Makefile hw.sgml sections.sgml Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980219100059.2319D-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> In-Reply-To: <199802191452.GAA19672@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Satoshi Asami wrote: > * Could anybody add a little blurb to this about what a hard drive > * advertised as "SCSI-3" means in practical terms to users making a > * purchase? > > You mean, "nothing"? ;) > > Actually, if someone can tell me what SCSI-3 in marketing bs means in > plain English, I can add that. (Ultra? Wide? Ultra-Wide?) I > haven't paid enough attention to all that junk.... If "nothing" is in fact what it means, it would be helpful to explicitly state it--there are a lot of harddrives marketed as SCSI-3. The hardware sections of the handbook should help users cut through the marketing crap and learn what *really* matters in building a top-notch system for FreeBSD. :) -john To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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