SCSI-based floppy drives (3.5 or 5.25)

From: Richard Erlacher <richard_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Thu Oct 19 14:01:33 2000

Are you sure about that? I have a number of "SCSI-2" drives on which bus
parity is a jumperable option. All the other SCSI-2 features remain active
if parity is disabled.

Dick

----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: SCSI-based floppy drives (3.5 or 5.25)


> pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com (Pete Turnbull) wrote:
> > BTW, SCSI-2 should work fine on a SCSI-1 system. You just won't get
some
> > of the extra twiddly SCSI-2 features.
>
> Usually, but not always. Some SCSI-2 devices and host adapters require
> bus parity, and some SCSI-1 devices and host adapters don't support
> parity at all.
>
>
Received on Thu Oct 19 2000 - 14:01:33 BST