SCSI pros & cons

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Sat Oct 13 17:50:46 2001

Glen Goodwin skrev:

>I wrote:

>> > If you have a pile of cards, one machine, and none
>> >of the cards work in that specific box, I'd suggest that there may be a
>> >fault in the box, or another device in there which conflicts with your
>SCSI
>> >cards.

>Iggy replied:

>> Who cares what the cause is? The point is that it won't work.

>??? Well, *I* care what the cause is. If you put a piece of hardware in a
>system and it doesn't work, don't you want to know why??? I don't
>understand this.

Depends on the system and whether I'm doing it for fun or just to get a task
done with. Generally, I like to know, but not in this case. The difference
between reasons and excuses is little, and I'm not at all interested in
excuses.

>> I see that BIOS setup utility on the cards as a sympthom of the low level
>of
>> integration. The cards behave as an alien entity in the computer.

>??? Okay, so you have to integrate the card into the system yourself, and
>that setup utility gives you the information and control you need to do it.
> Alien entity? What do you mean???

If it's got its own BIOS, it could just as well exist outside of the
computer, as long as it's supplied with +5 and 12V.

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