Subject: Re: Scuzzy Thinking (Re: 300MHz beige G3 questions)
To: John Klos <john@ziaspace.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/07/2002 20:36:25
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, John Klos wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Is that how it does 10Mb/S internal and 5Mb/S external (if
> > that's right)?  Or is it simply clocked at 5MHz and the
> > internal segment is 'slow, wide' (which seems unlikely)?
>
> I think there's a bit of confusion. No Macs ever came with wide SCSI on
> the motherboard. Nor is wide (non-ultra) SCSI even popular or common.

Be careful with the latter part of that comment. :-) wide-non-ultra SCSI
was at one point very popular, just not so much w/ the Mac crowd. When I
was at NASA, we had about 50 or so fast-wide SCSI drives to play with. :-)

Take care,

Bill