Re: [Hampshire] "Good old" SCSI?

On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 19:09:56 +0100, Rob Malpass wrote:

>Hi all
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>Are SCSI devices worth the bother nowadays?
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>From last week's post (and thanks for replies) it seems tape is the way and
>that USB drives are around £200 for the drive unit. I can get a SCSI
>Ultrium drive much more cheaply and the tapes aren't that pricey either at a
>fiver each.
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>This means I can either get a SCSI card or a USB to SCSI adapter. I'm
>slightly worried by this because I thought (and I may well be wrong) that
>SCSI was bronze age tech and could, at times, be a pain to get working.
>ISTR that you need to get a SCSI terminator from somewhere to make it all
>work - and indeed an old SCSI card might mean I struggle to find drivers.
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>So in short - I guess my question is: Is SCSI so old it's not worth
>bothering with?
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>I do need to keep the costs down - but not so much that I make an
>uneconomical decision.
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Long time since I set SCSI up. Still my old Advansys card worked fine
the other day to read a 18 year old Amiga HDD (100MB, cost fortune in
1993).

You need exactly three terminators, one at each end of the bus, and one
for the goat.

-jh