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Re: SCSI CD-ROM Drive



Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
: Matt Ackeret <mattack@area.com> wrote:
: >Mike Hackett wrote:
: >>From what I've read, the RamFast (what is the proper capitalization
: >>on that anyway? :-) ) does not support drives that are =strictly=
: >>SCSI-2. 

: >I though that SCSI-2 was by definition a superset of SCSI-1.

:    I believe it is, but there are some drives that appear to *require*
: the additional features of SCSI-2 not present in SCSI-1, which is what
: Mike Hackett was trying to get across originally. 

:    I believe the story on why certain Quantum and other SCSI drives
: don't work with the RamFast is that in SCSI-1, the host adaptor card
: was not required to have a SCSI ID of its own. In SCSI-2, there is the
: possibility that devices can request (and require) that.