Not for me Steve.
Here's an (OT) polemic for you ...
I have used SCSI for a few years now. At first I did not hot-swap
with my Mac Classic and IIcx, but after I discovered with my PowerMac
6500/300 that my Minolta scanner did not have to be on at start-up,
that Toast would find my just-started LaCie CD writer and that Iomega
have a clever thing called "Guest", SCSI holds no horrors for me now.
It is an excellent system whose termination requirement is a myth (on
all my machines anyway). I still have a Zip 250, Minolta Dimage Scan
Elite and LaCie CD-RW attached to my G4 and it works beautifully.
Now what will happen if I try that under OSX I wonder?
USB, on the other hand, is always giving me problems. It is very
fussy, hubs (powered or not) cause snags with some peripherals, my
Epson 750 seems to draw too much power and the connection gets shut
down, my miniVigor ISDN TA is not always on at start. For me SCSI is
much more predictable.
OT polemic over; may I email you direct about OSX issues? :>).
Chris
At 04:33 -0600 7/3/02, Steve Dropkin wrote:
snip...
As for what was wrong with SCSI, where shall I start? :-) Can't
hot-swap anything. _You_ are the arbitrator in deciding what ID goes
where (and don't forget that some were reserved and their order was
significant). Nothing else used SCSI, really, so peripherals were
expensive (though that's being turned on its head now that SCSI is
falling out of favor). SCSI needs termination at each end of the
chain, but the method of termination is not always consistent....
When I got my G4, I bought a SCSI card to keep my scanner, second
hard drive, and CD-burner alive -- didn't want to spend several
hundred more (US) dollars updating them. Only the CD-burner is still
here; everything else has been replaced with non-SCSI equivalents
because chaining devices was just too much of a pain in the neck.
Who'da thunk it?
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