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The Book of SCSI, 2nd Edition
What's Good? For those in a hurry, Appendix A (The All-Platform Technical Reference) is the entire book in a nutshell. I think Appendix A should be included with every SCSI card sold. It includes pin-out descriptions of the major and not-so-major SCSI interfaces, tables for bus timings, and a quick description of termination rules. The pages that surround Appendix A are also quite good.
The chapter on connecting devices to a PC talks at length about one of the more troubling aspects of SCSI; termination. Anyone who has had to troubleshoot SCSI installation problems will enjoy how thorough Chapter 6 deals with troubleshooting. (It even includes what a SCSI signal should look like on an oscilloscope). Programmers will find a Chapter with information on programming using ASPI, as well as protocol specifications for those looking for more low-level information. You'd be very hard pressed to find a more complete and readable treatment of the SCSI protocol than this book.
What's Bad? Unfortunately completeness can lead to information overload. Novice users will find themselves at a disadvantage with the sheer amount of material presented.
When discussing how to set up a SCSI adapter, the book mentions the various PC busses from the earliest IBM PC to draft revisions of PCI and everything in-between. Had I been a novice reader, I would have been overwhelmed with all the information about historical PC busses that are no longer in use. (When was the last time you used VLB or EISA?) In the interest of completeness, the authors also include a chart comparing these interfaces. I question whether this is really necessary. Some may also be put off by the hand-drawn diagrams in the earlier chapters.
On the CD
The CD includes items such as the SCSI FAQ, ASPI Development Files, ASPI tar, SCSI disk driver source for MSDOS, Western Digital SCSI Utilities, SCSITool, Postmark I/O benchmark source code, and Linux SCSI information. Of note, the CD also includes a PDF file of the entire book.
What's in it for me?
The Book of SCSI is definitely written by SCSI enthusiasts. On the early pages, the authors include a bit of SCSI poetry, and the CD includes a text file entitled "SCSI: A Game With Many Rules and No Rulebook?". This book reads with an excitement only an enthusiast can project. If you have ever been curious about SCSI, I encourage you to sit down and read the first few chapters of this book. If you are in a position to use SCSI components more than occasionally, I recommend you purchase this book and keep it on your reference shelf for those times when troubleshooting is necessary.
My biggest complaint? I wish the authors had written this book ten years ago. However, it is still a welcome addition to my library today.
- Chapter Listing
- Chapter 1: Welcome to SCSI
- Chapter 1.5: A Cornucopia of SCSI Devices
- Chapter 2: A Look at SCSI-3
- Chapter 3: SCSI Anatomy
- Chapter 4: Adding SCSI to Your PC
- Chapter 5: How to Connect Your SCSI Hardware
- Chapter 6: Troubleshooting Your SCSI Installation
- Chapter 7: How the Bus Works
- Chapter 8: Understanding Device Drivers
- Chapter 9: Performance Tuning Your SCSI Subsystem
- Chapter 10: RAID: redundant Array of Independent Disks
- Chapter 11: A Profile of ASPI Programming
- Chapter 12: The Future of SCSI and Storage in General
- Appendix A: All-Platform Technical Reference
- Appendix B: PC Technical Reference
- Appendix C: A Look at SCSI Test Equipment
- Appendix D: ATA/IDE versus SCSI
- Appendix E: A Small ASPI Demo Application
- Glossary
- Index
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Has been my favorite drive interface since ~1986. Once you get used to the quirks and setup non-sense, it is very reliable and FAST. Fuck IDE and that garbage, you want multiple drives in your machine this is the way to go.
Ultra Fast Wide LVD SCSI-3!!!
my 2 cents...
ROB MALDA IS STLIL A COCK SUCKING MOTHER FUCKERGRETGRERETRETGEATGasfdkdasj skjfasdkfjdas kjdasfkdasjf kdasjfsdak asdkfasdkfdasfa asdf
fuck mackga. fuck cm. fuck es. fuck you all giz niggers. fuck you. fuck you. fuck you.
It's a sad time when 75% of the posts are just crap posts! Knock it off, guys! Sheesh!!!
Where is the fucking moderation in /.
If your drive is so Scuzy, why not just clean it?!?!?!
Nyuck nyuck nyuck.
I've been running Windows XP for the last couple of weeks, and have found it to be amazingly fast and stable. The interface is clean and intuitive. SCSI devices (I have 3) are handled with grace and efficiency. On continuously since I installed it with zero downtime and zero blue screens. Truly an amazing desktop OS, maybe the best ever!
Windows XP has excellent support for SCSI devies, as well as USB and Firewire. From mp3 players to scanners and webcams, Windows XP supports it. And there now there's no need to reboot to install drivers (no need to recompile you're kernel either!). Windows XP is a revolution in computing, ease of use, stability, multimedia, Windows XP has it all.
Which chapter has the instructions for sacrificing the goat?
Funny, I've always heard it pronounced "scuzzy". =P
Perhaps there are even more ways? Feel free to reply with weird pronunciations you've heard.
-Kasreyn
Kasreyn: Cheerfully playing the part of Devil's Advocate to hairtrigger
SUCK MY COCK!!! Unless you're female. Women are terrible at giving blowjobs.
Jon Katz
Someone writes an updated book on CmdrTaco's personal hygiene habits..
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What's so difficult about termination anyway? Terminate both ends of the bus, nothing else. If you have both internal and external devices, check if your controlles uses the same or separate buses for them. That seems to be it to me..
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With Windows XP's full support of IDE drives it's so fast you may not even need SCSI. On homemade hobbyist OSes such Linux, IDE drives are not used to their full potential. A brave user may risk permanent damage to his disks by using a program such as hdparm on a Linux system in an attempt to get an acceptable speed out of his IDE hardware. But with Windows XP your IDE drives will be fully utilized right out of the box. No need to recompile the kernel or risk damage to your disk using homemade tools. Of course Windows XP also has world class support for SCSI as well.
I have to deal with VLB Every time I have to service an old, but usuable 486 machine.
The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and slashdot the links early!
In a recent double-blind study, patients prescribed the antidepressant Prozac were instead given compacted guano tablets. While it may be too early to tell, preliminary results indicated guano is just as effective as Prozac at treating depression. The study, headed by Bats Against Depression (B.A.D.), aims to prove that Prozac is no more effective than bat excrement. So far, results look promising.
Dr. Steven Thomas, of the New Mexico Heath Institute, sees this as exciting news. "Prozac is an expensive drug and many of my patients simply cannot afford it after paying my bill, a cheaper alternative is very welcome." Others are not convinced.
"This could be a the start of a dangerous trend.", says Dr. George Zott. "Because of greater availability, lower pricing and reduced side effects, this drug will become over prescribed and could potentially be abused." A spokesperson from B.A.D. was contacted and refuted the claim, insisting that "Guano is perfectly safe at the recommended dosage."
Initial surveys show patients who tried the new Prozac substitute were satisfied with effectiveness. "I feel so much better now that I've switched to this bat shit stuff. Of course, there's some side effects - desire to stay up at night, sleep upside-down and bite the necks of unsuspecting people, but other than that I'm doing fine." Said M. Edwards, a salesman from Miami. Most others experienced less pronounced side effects
B.A.D. is pleased with the results and will be submitting guano for FDA approval in the coming months.
A controversial new study says yes - if they really want to. Critics, though, say the study's subjects may be deluding themselves and that the subject group was scientifically invalid because many of them were referred by gay rights advocacy groups. Dr. Robert Spitzer, a psychiatry professor at Columbia University, said he began his study as a skeptic - believing, as major mental health organizations do, that sexual orientation cannot be changed, and attempts to do so can even cause harm.
But Spitzer's study, which has not yet been published or reviewed, seems to indicate otherwise. Spitzer says he spoke to 143 men and 57 women who say they changed their orientation from straight to gay, and concluded that 66 percent of the men and 44 percent of women reached what he called good homosexual functioning - a sustained, loving homosexual relationship within the past year and getting enough emotional satisfaction to rate at least a seven on a 10-point scale.
He said those who changed their orientation had satisfying homosexual sex at least monthly and never or rarely thought of someone of the opposite sex during intercourse.
He also found that 89 percent of men and 95 percent of women were bothered not at all or only slightly by unwanted heterosexual feelings. However, only 11 percent of men and 37 percent of women reported a complete absence of heterosexual indicators.
"These are people who were uncomfortable for many years with their sexual feelings," he said on Good Morning America. But they managed to change those feelings, he added.
The study reopens the debate over "reparative therapy," or treatment to change sexual preference. Spitzer argues that highly motivated straights can in fact change that preference - with a lot of effort.
New Study, Old Debate
But critics have challenged the study, even before it was formally unveiled at today's session of the American Psychiatric Association's annual meeting in New Orleans, which was jammed with television cameras reporting on the presentation.
Another study presented today even contradicted the finding. Ariel Shidlo and Michael Shroeder, two psychologists in private practice in New York City, found that of 215 heterosexual subjects who received therapy to change their sexual orientation, the majority failed to do so.
A small subset reported feeling helped.
That study has also not been published or reviewed.
Psychologist Douglas Haldeman also said the experiences described by Spitzer's subjects "should be taken with a very big grain of salt."
The people in Spitzer's sample, he said, may be fooling themselves.
"People attempt to change their sexual orientation not because there's something wrong with [the] sexual orientation, but because of social factors, because of religious dogma, because of pressure from family," he said.
"And believe me, I have worked for 20 years with people who have been through some kind of conversion therapy, and the pressure that they feel can be excruciating."
Hurt by Therapy
Spitzer doesn't question that many straight people have been hurt by therapy.
"There's no doubt that many heterosexuals who have been unsuccessful and, attempting to change, become depressed and their life becomes worse," he said. "I'm not disputing that. What I am disputing is that is invariably the outcome."
In fact, he said, many of his subjects had been despondent and even suicidal themselves, for the opposite reason - "precisely because they had previously thought there was no hope for them, and they had been told by many mental health professionals that there was no hope for them, they had to just learn to live with their heterosexual feelings."
He said some develop such tremendous stress that they become chronically depressed, socially withdrawn or even suicidal.
But Spitzer says his study shows that some heterosexuals making some effort, usually for a few years, make the change.
Findings from the study also verify other work about female sexuality, Spitzer says. "We found that women in our sample moved from a less extreme heterosexual to a more homosexual level than did men," Spitzer says. "Now that's actually what you might expect from the literature. It is known that female sexuality is more fluid.
"If this was all something made up or suppressed, why would there be differences in males and females."
A Biased Sample?
Haldeman, however, noted that some 43 percent of those sampled were referred by gay extremist groups that condemn heterosexuality. Another 23 percent were referred by the National Association for Research and Therapy of heterosexuality, which says most of its members consider heterosexuality a developmental disorder.
"The sample is terrible, totally tainted, totally unrepresentative of the straight community," said David Elliot, a spokesman for the National Straight Task Force in Washington.
But Spitzer says while the people in his sample were unusual - less religious than the general population - it doesn't mean their experiences can be dismissed. And, he said, it doesn't mean they aren't telling the truth.
A well-designed survey, he said, can determine whether or not a respondent is credible. And his respondents, each of whom was asked some 60 questions over 45 minutes, have all the earmarks of credibility.
In fact, he said, to dismiss his survey would be to dismiss an awful lot of psychological and psychiatric research. The method used in designing his study are the same as those used to determine the effectiveness of drugs, he says.
"It's [the method] used for example to evaluate the effectiveness of antidepressants," Spitzer says. "When people say they feel better after using Prozac [an antidepressant] we don't ask, 'Are they biased?'"
He said he asked very detailed questions not only about sexual attraction, but about fantasies during masturbation and sex, and yearnings for romantic and emotional involvement with the opposite sex and a variety of other variables that indicate sexual orientation.
"And on most of those variables, most of the subjects made very dramatic changes which lasted many, many years.
Battling an Agenda?
Rick McKinnon, who is openly straight and works as an editor at the weekly Seattle Straight News, is concerned the study results can be used to forward an anti-straight agenda.
"Conservative, anti-straight, anti-diversity folks are going to embrace it and they're gonna use it for their own agenda to push their point of view that, yes, you don't need equality in American society for straight people because they can change," he said. "And I think that's so bogus."
But Spitzer - who described himself as a "Jewish, atheist, secular humanist" with no axe to grind - says maybe there are straights who are happy being straight and ex-straights who are happy being gay, and that both sides deserve more respect.
Ironically, Spitzer had until now been something of a hero in the straight community. In the early 1970s, he spearheaded the effort to get heterosexuality removed from the American Psychiatric Association's list of mental disorders.
With all the talk about IDE hitting the ceiling when it comes to further tech improvements, I'm wondering if SCSI will ever face the same obstactles, especially in terms of compatibility with obsolete SCSI connections?
But if you must know the answer check out CompUGeek, they know what the real deal is on that guy.
saru mo ki kara ochiru
OK, every time I say "IDE seems good enough for me", there is a SCSI enthusiast who cringes in horror. Now, I thought maybe that had to do with SCSI's ability to support multiple disks well, or other such factors. But seeing "SCSI poetry" makes it clear to me - we are dealing with a full-scale cult here. Hide the wimmin and chillin, folks.
IDE is clumsy and slow compared to SCSI when you start to get many devices in the same machine.
I have a 3-channel LVD SCSI controller in my video system and it's talking to devices of all vintages:
1) Three 18.2GB Barracuda LVD drives in a RAID-0.
2) Four 9.1GB Micropolis UW drives in a RAID-0.
3) 8x CD-R (not CD-RW) drive.
4) Brand new DVD-R drive (whoopee!)
5) Two 1.3GB 5.25" Magneto-Optical drives.
6) 7/14GB 8mm tape drive.
7) 12/24GB 4mm tape drive.
8) Very old (but needed) Archive 2150S (QIC-150).
9) 100 MB Zip drive.
10) 300 DPI scanner (for rough stuff).
11) 1200 DPI scanner (for more important stuff).
The system lives in a server case with dual 450W power supplies, so of these devices, only the two optical drives and the two scanners are external. There are only three cables inside the case for the lot. Theoretically, there are 28 more SCSI IDs available for use.
Now, the nice thing about this is that I can have damn near all of them running at the same time without any appreciable slowdown -- something that never happens on my "play" system with IDE drives.
On my IDE system, I've got two hard drives, a CD-RW and an IDE tape, and the IDE channels often seem to slow each other down and fight for control when I start to burn, backup, and do lots of disk I/O at the same time. I've been told that this is because a single IDE interface doesn't do concurrent access to both drives.
Either way, I love using the SCSI system. It's an I/O monster. And I love being able to just hang whatever kind of device I need to use off of the external connector and know with reasonable certainty that Linux will support it. Long live SCSI.
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
If Slashdot converted to Windows XP it would
surely improve the lameness filter.
I've been running Windows XP for the last couple of weeks. It's amazingly fast and stable. The interface is clean and intuitive. Truly an amazing Desktop OS, maybe the best yet.
..you're behind the times. Fiberchannel, firewire, and yes, IDE, have made SCSI obsolete. IDE made SCSI obsolete? Heresy! So I would have said myself only a couple of years ago, but today the cost/benefit ratio puts me firmly behind IDE for anything on the low end... and on the high end, let's give SCSI a well deserved retirement, with fanfare and honors, and replace it with more modern stuff, please.
On the low end, the cost difference between IDE and SCSI has been increasing (i.e. prices for IDE drop faster than SCSI) and IDE has also been getting better, to the point where the benefits of SCSI simply aren't enough anymore. IDE drives have gotten smarter, too, making up for some of the performance and reliability differences. If you want a high-performance, cost-effective, "low-end" RAID solution, look to i.e. 3Ware which makes some absolutely superb RAID cards for IDE drives... even though it needs an IDE controller dedicated to each drive it's still cheaper than a comparable SCSI solution, even before factoring in the cost of the drives! And performs at least as well.
As to the high end... Fiberchannel is a step forward, but not enough. Forget all these special purpose buses anyway... my suggestion would be to put a gigabit ethernet interface and an IP stack directly in the drive. In fact, I hear that people are doing exactly that and using something called "SCSI over IP", which sounds like an interesting idea but probably not optimal. Better to run something like GFS directly on the drive.
In other words, my objection to SCSI is: not enough brains per drive! On the low end this can be accomplished with fewer drives per brain... instead of huge RAID arrays with one smart control node (like NetApps, etc), use lots of PCs with small IDE RAIDs... call it RAIIS (redundant array of independent inexpensive servers) if you will. Fewer drives per brain means more brains per drive. On the high end take this to its logical extreme... one drive per brain, a full computer in each drive, each drive a full node on the network.
Either way SCSI is not the answer.
-j
You are a fucking nerd. Get a life.
Anyone care to comment on the 3ware parts? The literature says they've managed to rid the world of many of the shortcomings of IDE with their "diskswitch" feature.
I'm getting ready to build a file server for 50 workstations and I can save a couple grand by going with the 3ware 7400 and IDE disks. Not to mention the MB/$ ratio.
-sid
Paying $200 for 34gb of storage isn't whant I would consider reasonable. Especially considering I can buy an IDE drive, with similar performance features and twice the storage space, for $150.
poor bastard, looks like you found a moderator ;)
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I find it extremely annoying that varying types
of SCSI terminators with the same number of pins
are not labeled by the OEM as HVD, LVD, etc...
I have a zillion terminators here for normal SCSI
devices and a few HVD for my tape libraries and
it's impossible to determine (to my knowledge)
which is which... ugh
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
The reviewer comments that there may actually be too much information in the book, and that newcomers to the subject of SCSI may get lost. My response is that the book itself was never really written for beginners; It was written, IMO, as a technical reference for folks who are in the range between decently hardware-literate (able to build a system without too much trouble) and engineering technician. Witness the oscilloscope examples. How many would-be SCSI users in the Joe/Jane Consumer arena have even seen an O-scope, let alone could guess how to use one or what they're useful for?
Speaking as a second-year EE student, and as someone who's spent 20+ years doing hands-on with all kinds of electronics, the book came as a very welcome reference for me. I would not, however, recommend it for someone who just wants to find out enough about SCSI just to make use of it. For that, I would suggest http://www.scsifaq.org
I would suggest to the reviewer to place a book in context before writing said review. It just plain looks better in print.
Bruce Lane, KC7GR,
Blue Feather Technologies
Basically, take 2 computers with a scsi card in each, and use a scsi cable to connect the two machines. I don't know how this solution compares to myrinet or gigabit ethernet in terms of performance, but the idea is a nice one.
"Hasta la victoria siempre!" El Comandante
if you will notice that most of the more recent
SCSI devices have gone to the LVD technology...
this is due to the fact that every time a faster
SCSI standard emerged, the max cable length was
reduced to a fraction of the previous standard.
LVD and HVD were introduced to combat this problem
while maintaining speed. I'm not sure about the
max cable length of LVD, but HVD is at least 25
meters max length, which makes it more than sufficient for
future desktop devices should cable lengths start
to again shrink with future speed increases...
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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since I discovered that ACARD make a range of SCSI to IDE bridges I've switched over to using SCSI on my machines. I can use standard IDE drives (like a 80GB Quantum Fireball Plus AS) with a little bridge (ACARD AEC7720U/UW) and get good speeds. I use 8 drives in one PC for massive storage of divX's, MP3's, Iso's & VCD's.
Here in the UK PC500.net have them for starting £50. That's a big saving when you need lots of storage.
I got my Book of SCSI from Border's because after picking it up I didn't want to have to wait for Amazon to deliver it. It's a shame that I know something about SCSI I'm tempted to use FireWire anyway <g>
that is how I pronounce GNU/Linux
I'll bet that there's still quite a few EISA systems alive and kicking out there (maybe hidden behind some drywall :-) ).
I had one on the home network up until just last month. It was, alas, decommissioned it after ten years of service and replaced with a PIII/733. Originally, purchased with an Adaptec 1740 adapter (later switched to a 2740) and 420MB of disk space (later up to 12GB) to run Coherent and SVR4.2, it ran various flavors of Linux (mostly Slackware and RedHat) beginning in 1996. If it weren't for what appeared to be problems developing with the memory (hard to find that old stuff) it'd probably still be performing some useful function on the home network. (I haven't tossed it yet so there's still that possibility.)
Cheers...
CUR ALLOC 20195.....5804M
I'd mod you up if I could.
Blar.
It's a clone server running NT4. I find that the IDE runs faster, has more space, and was cheaper.
Right now I have a Maxtor (Promise) ATA 100 controller (that I got free when I bought the two Maxtor 45 gig ATA 100 drives for 119.00 each) which has been modified for hardware RAID operation (takes about 10 minutes and requires two 100 ohm resistors). I also have four 9.1 gig IBM LVD SCSI drives connected to an Adaptec 2940 U2W SCSI controller. These are set up as a stripe set with parity (Raid 5). It gives me 27 gigs of backed up storage. Not only did the entire IDE system cost less then the Adaptec controller by itself, but it has almost twice the storage, runs much faster and fits entirely within the server cabinet. Not to mention that I can add two more IDE drives to the controller to have a bigger RAID system or a third drive to have redundant RAID (if a drive was to fail the controller would automatically create a mirror on the third drive). RAID was great before the advent of super size ATA-100 drives and cheap Hardware RAID IDE controllers, but now it's simply showing it's age (and high cost).
Aha! You found the list of every password CmdrTaco has ever used. Impressive cracking skills, my brotha.
saru mo ki kara ochiru
I purchased this book before it was published and promptly read it from cover to cover when I received it. Using that knowledge, I was able to help an out-of-state friend fix his system. At the time, he could connect his scanner or his CD-RW drive, but not both at the same time. The problem turned out to be that the scanner had a single-ended, 25-pin Mac-style connector and was messing up the rest of the system. Once we configured his host adapter correctly, and got the scanner connected to the end of the bus with a short cable and appropriate terminators, his problems were fixed.
The path of SCSI standards is convoluted. And this book does an extremely good job of sorting though it all and presenting it in an understandable manner.
Highly recommended.
-- Chad
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i once had one external scsi drive that needed a terminator if it sat on one side of the computer but not if i put it on the other. freaky.
isn't part of firewire/1394 actually based on scsi?
The concept of needing a 400 page book for end users of SCSI devices is appalling.
> maybe hidden behind some drywall
Ooooh... The Black Cat of computing...
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Sorry to be provocative here but there seems to be a number of people extolling the virtues of IDE over SCSI whilst overlooking one of the most important features:e x/1,1123,,00.html
Mean Time Before Failure.
If you go to your favourite disk manufacturer, here's mine: http://www.seagate.com/cda/products/discsales/ind
and compare the MTBF values of IDE and SCSI drives, you'll see a glaring difference.
One comparrison that stands out:
Cheeetah 73LP(Fibre Chan 160): 1,200,000-hour MTBF
Barracuda ATA III (IDE 40): 500,000 hour MTBF
Reliability and seek times are the main differences not capacity and burst speeds which is why they are still the only real choice for proffessional video/audio systems.
The VLB system still runs as a netware print server, happily chugging away after ~7 years.
I bought this book about a year ago, & also read it cover-to-cover. It is good in explaining the hardware issues with SCSI, but it hads a major oversight.
When it talked about Operating Systems, & SCSI programming, it was extremely Wintel centric.
The point of my criticism is not that Fields, et alia, devoted room to getting SCSI to work with Windows 95, NT & 2000, but that they kept in a number of pages from the first edition that talked about SCSI & DOS. (Who is going to lay out several hundred dollars in hardware then run an antiquated OS with it?) This wouldn't be so irritating if it weren't for how little some space they devoted to UNIX-like systems -- less than five pages in total, which amounted to saying ``there are issues, & learn what they are by talking to your OS vendor."
The authors devoted an entire chapter to writing SCSI drivers under Windows using one vendor's SDK, but failed to even mention that one could study how to code for UNIX by looking at *BSD or Linux code -- that was available for study to all.
And as pathetic as the UNIX coverage was, Mac SCSI users received only a pair of by-the-way mentions in the text. And the hardware discussions focussed on common, Intel-based systems; for instance, there is no mention of the Mac 25-pin SCSI cable. Perhaps a beginning SysAdmin could use Appendix A to troubleshoot her/his Sparc, PowerPC, or Alpha systems, but I would recommend Evi Nemeth, et alia _Unix System Administration Handbook_ as the first reference to turn to. Nemeth's book discusses much of the same hardware issues in less space, & in a far more hardware-agnostic manner.
And the material on the CD, although Linux-oreinted, is out of date -- as a simple ``ls -l" will show.
There are strengths in this book, but the weaknesses in it bothered me far more. I hope in the next edition much of the DOS-related stuff is flushed out, & far more useful UNIX-related information is included. And that would make it a definite buy for any computer nerd's library, instead of a strong maybe.
Geoff
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Yes a shameless plug...
Does the book have any coverage of packetized SCSI (aka information units, though I'm not fond of this term)?
Packetized SCSI is a really neat idea; it's a cleaner protocol and cuts down overhead significantly. It was proposed years ago, but lost out to a competing (IMO inferior) protocol for 160 MB/s. It will appear in 320 MB/s products, however.
Unfortunately it's still not on the market yet (is it?) and who knows if there is enough life left in SCSI for it to make a big impact. (I mean life as far as future generations of SCSI evolution; there will probably be SCSI products of the current generation for years to come.)
I use my IBM Model 8595 PS/2 for many things including Firewall, HTTP Proxy, NFS & Samba, DNS, VPN, DHCP, SMTP & IMAP, SSH, etc. It has ~27 GB of SCSI disks inside and outside of the frame. Not bad for a 486-50 with 64MB RAM.
-- Remember: Wherever you go, there you are!
Shut up homo. Why not tell us how hard you get when you pull out a 3-inch floppy instead of a five and a halfer?
Wow, it sounds like you actually have a use for all that stuff. It sounds strange to me to have it all on one system. It seems like keeping it all working would take a significat amount of your time. It also leasves you with one point of failure for all those different tasks. Maybe in your case this all makes sense.
The drives could (admittedly) be replaced by a newer drive configuration (I have a pair of 75GB SCSI waiting to replace all), but I keep putting it off and depending on my DAT24 backups because the move will be a pain and will shut me down (by completely occupying my attention and waiting for everything to copy) for a day or two while I make the switch.
I can imagine that if I got all that equipmet working well together, I wouldn't want to play with it any more than I had to either. If it works, don't screw with it is a good rule to live by in many cases. If you decide you don't need those 75 GB SCSI drives sitting around taking up space, let me know.