SCSI Bus Problem?

From: Julius Sridhar <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Mon Feb 11 18:26:14 2002

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Jeff Hellige wrote:

> >>SCSI Wide also supports plain old SCSI devices. I'm running such a
> >>configuration in my web server (3 SCSI Wide drives and 2 SCSI-2)
> >>
> >>Sellam Ismail Vintage
> >>Computer Festival
> >
> >Yup, sellam's right, be warned however that your SCSI bus will be
> >hobbled to the speed of the slowest device usually.
>
> Which is why I keep two seperate SCSI cards running in my
> main Mac...a Wide board for the internal SCSI hard disks and an
> Ultra/Narrow for anything external I might wish to plug up to it,
> such as CD-R and scanner.

A narrow device will not reduce a wide bus to a narrow one.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Mon Feb 11 2002 - 18:26:14 GMT