You forgot the emoticon.
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I did indeed. Thought it would smudge the irony.
And the controllers...Man were they expensive! With few exceptions. One was an Asus SCSI-U2W controller that was listed (and bought by me) at a fraction of the Adaptec rip-offs.
And boy, were the 15K Cheetahs NOOOOISSEEEEEYJoin MURCs Distributed Computing effort for Rosetta@Home and help fight Alzheimers, Cancer, Mad Cow disease and rising oil prices.
[...]the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time. - VeblenComment
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SCSI had many advantages ... performance, reliability, and the ability to externalize multiple devices on a single chain. Times have changed though. I started with SCSI with a Bernouli drive connected to a Mac Classic and then went onto PC SCSI RAID in the early 90's.<TABLE BGCOLOR=Red><TR><TD><Font-weight="+1"><font COLOR=Black>The world just changed, Sep. 11, 2001</font></Font-weight></TR></TD></TABLE>Comment
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Sure. I started with an A590 SCSI/ST506 and memory board. Sooooo many had ST506 drives while the controller allowed for SCSI as well but them Quantum drives (42mB was tha bomb) were to expensive.Join MURCs Distributed Computing effort for Rosetta@Home and help fight Alzheimers, Cancer, Mad Cow disease and rising oil prices.
[...]the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time. - VeblenComment
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Speaking of good 'ol SCSI ... "Epic uptime achievement unlocked. Can you beat 16 years?" NetWare and SCSI ... they were the workhorses of their time.<TABLE BGCOLOR=Red><TR><TD><Font-weight="+1"><font COLOR=Black>The world just changed, Sep. 11, 2001</font></Font-weight></TR></TD></TABLE>Comment
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