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ammmir | 4 months ago

what is the connection with SCSI?

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bestham|4 months ago

SCSI had a reputation of being very stable and yet very finicky. Stable in the sense that not using the CPU for transfers yielded good performance and reliability. The finicky part was the quality of equipment (connectors, adapters, cables and terminators) something that led to users having to figure out the best order of connecting their devices in a chain that actually worked. “Hard drive into burner an always the scanner last.”

cbsmith|4 months ago

We used to joke that it should be called SCSl: System, Cables, Scanner last.