🚀 go-pugleaf

In <u6katos@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:

>  The problem with moving drives to the Mac is that many models 
>  of Mac (all but the most recent?) don't handle unit attention 
>  properly on power up or after SCSI bus reset.
>
>  Conversely, many drives for the Mac have rather poor SCSI 
>  implementations.  The Quantum drive will probably work, but 
>  there are no guarantees.  --

  I can't let this pass without comment. Undoubtedly, from the 
  standpoint of a scsi technician, an sgi (indigoes and personal 
  irises) is superior to a macintosh.

  Unfortunately, from the standpoint of Joe User, Mac scsi is a 
  dream to work with compared to the sgi. We can attach any number
  of scsi devices to our macs - disks, scanners, tape drives, etc. -
  from any manufacturer, and they just WORK.

  With the sgi's, every time we attach a new disk drive we run 
  the risk of encountering scsi bus errors, timeouts, etc. When
  we get above four scsi devices, we need to start messing around
  with cables - a few inches in cable length can make all the 
  difference.  We've never had this problem on the macs.

  I wish sgi had made their scsi bus more robust even at the 
  expense of making it a "poor implementation". I'd rather have 
  it work in the real world, than have the comfort of knowing 
  it's a perfect implementation of the spec.

  -shoshana
   shoshana@pdi.com
   Shoshana Abrass
   Pacific Data Images, Sunnyvale, CA