At 11:38 AM -0700 6/23/2012, [email protected] wrote:
The particular Adaptec controller used UW-SCSI drives, which have a 68-pin interface for a 16-bit-wide data path. Traditional SCSI has a 50-pin interface for an 8-bit-wide data path.
That always bugged me. That SCSI board should have been standard. Macs are supposed to be bleeding edge hot sh*t, and they're certainly priced that way, but then Apple kept foisting off older slower interfaces on us. SCSI-1 when the world was doing SCSI-2 and -3. ATA/100. USB 1. etc *sigh*
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