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Re: SCA (-2 or -3) drives?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeffrey B. Siegal)
Sun Sep 27 22:05:01 1998
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 19:03:07 -0700
From: "Jeffrey B. Siegal" <jbs@quiotix.com>
To: Brendan Miller <brmiller@wco.com>
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
Brendan Miller wrote:
> It is frequent that I see 80-pin SCA-2 or SCA-3 drives for sale cheap,
> and it is tempting to load up my SCSI chain with them, but are there
> gremlins lurking?
One problem is that using a lot of adapters is likely to increase the chance
of SCSI wiring problems, particularly at Ultra speeds. If you want one or
two drives you'll probably be okay and the SCA drives can be bargains, but
I'd recommend against trying to "load up a SCSI chain" with them.
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