[8255] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: domain validation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Jacob)
Fri Feb 25 21:55:50 2000
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:34:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com
To: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc: Robert Frey <bobfrey@home.com>, Dan Jones <djones@valinux.com>,
Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <200002252353.QAA01184@caspian.plutotech.com>
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> >That's a good point along with Dan's legacy SCSI backplane example. But I
> >can argue this is a misconfiguration. Why use a 160 MB/S drive in a system
> >where it will only run at 40 or 80 MB/S?
>
> For the same reason that many people are using U2 drives in SE mode.
> The LVD drives are becoming the commodity drive manufactured, they
> are cheaper, and they are upwards compatible for when you decide to
> replace your controller/system.
Absolutely. Imagine my pleasnt surprise that the Quantum drive I bought for
LVD/Ultra2 testing in fact turned out to be an Ultra3 drive.
-matt
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