Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.com!mksol!mccall From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (Fred McCall) Subject: Re: What's the advantage of a SCSI-II CD-ROM???? Message-ID: <1994Apr25.005041.2346@mksol.dseg.ti.com> Organization: Texas Instruments Inc X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL0] References: <1994Apr13.172513.8168@mksol.dseg.ti.com> Date: Mon, 25 Apr 1994 00:50:41 GMT Lines: 31 Zhao Huang (bbs.watcher@tsoft.net) wrote: : mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (Fred McCall) writes: : > : > SCSI-1 does this, too. Now, tell us again, what are the advantages of : > a SCSI-2 CD-ROM? : ... What's the difference between a Quadra and a Power PC? The Quadra either uses a different processor (if you don't upgrade it) or does not meet Apple/IBM standards for Power machines (yes, really). : The SCSI-2 I : believe, is merely the next generation of SCSI. It's suppose to : eliminate some of the incompatibility of SCISI-1 and provide fast : transfer rate. Many people seem to have missed my sarcasm. So far, no one has pointed out any 'advantage' to SCSI-II over everything else for CD-ROM. Any advantage people claim for SCSI-II also seems to apply to SCSI-I. Transfer speed isn't exactly an issue when you're dealing with CD-ROM and, while SCSI-II does provide a more standard command set (by expanding the SCSI-I set), many devices which 'claim' they are SCSI-II aren't and SCSI-II is a *lot* more sensitive to cable quality -- to the point where things that work in a SCSI-I setup will fail with a SCSI-II controller. -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.