Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!decwrl!hookup!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!news.eunet.fi!news.funet.fi!ngw!news.funet.fi!not-for-mail From: "Michael S. Hart" Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: Re: SCSI - worth it? Date: 25 Feb 1994 22:09:14 +0200 Organization: FUNET-NGW Lines: 41 Sender: daemon@news.funet.fi Distribution: alt Message-ID: Reply-To: "Michael S. Hart" NNTP-Posting-Host: news.funet.fi Return-Path: <@UCCVMA.UCOP.EDU,@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU:HART@VMD.CSO.UIUC.EDU> Comments: To: David Elliott Comments: cc: CDROM EDITORS To: CDROM-L Redistribution In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 25 Feb 94 07:28:52 -0800 On Fri, 25 Feb 94 07:28:52 -0800 you said: > >>On the other hand, I have known people to install 7 devices on one >>SCSI line, with only one piece of install software, which included >>scanners, cdrom drives, read/writable optical drives, hard drives. > >>If you choose the right hardware/software combinations. . . . > >>If you choose the wrong ones. . . . > >Exactly my point, Michael. If SCSI was completely hassle-free, >there would be no "wrong ones". > >You can know of 20 people who had no trouble connecting 7 SCSI >devices to a machine, but if you know a single person who had >any trouble connecting 1 or 2, that blows it. > >David Elliott - dce@netcom.com - (408)735-8362 Anyone can write poor instructions or poor software. . .it does not change the utility of what was already there. You are engaging in a fallacy of the "reduction ad absurdum" variety, a subset of which states, if anything at all goes wrong, the whole effort is to be eradicated. . .otherwise known as "throwing the baby out with the bathwater.: Thanks, ============================================= Michael S. Hart, Professor of Electronic Text Executive Director of Project Gutenberg Etext Illinois Benedictine College, Lisle, IL 60532 No official connection to U of Illinois--UIUC hart@uiucvmd.bitnet and hart@vmd.cso.uiuc.edu If I don't answer in two days, please resend. It usually means I did not get/see your note. General queries to: dircompg@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu