Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 01:30:41 -0500 (EST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: ejc@gargoyle.bazzle.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACER Motherboard: SCSI Recommendations? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951214012610.3868C-100000@hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199512141551.PAA25531@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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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
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