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Re: SCSI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthias Urlichs)
Thu Sep 19 09:01:45 1996
From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
To: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 1996 12:16:59 +0100
In linux.dev.net, article <Pine.VUL.3.94.960918215740.8173B-100000@pppb=
ox.baby-dragons.com>,
babydr <babydr@nwrain.net> writes:
>=20
> Hello all, I do know that the Macintosh had an after=20
> market scsi device with drivers that was a
> SCSI <-> Ether transciever, so some of the drivers
> that were written s/b around for someone to dig up.
>=20
Forget it -- the Mac has a very nonstandard (and _stupid_) SCSI interfa=
ce
(designed by people who didn't understand the basic fact that SCSI
transfers are (mostly) driven by the target; the Macs these things were
built for didn't even do disconnect/reconnect), and the network driver
interface of these drivers is (a) 100% Mac-specific and (b) obsolete by
now.=20
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