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Authored by: greed on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 09:10 PM EDT |
Keep in mind Adaptec controllers were a PC thing.
Many of us were using SCSI on non-PC systems: desktop, deskside and whole-rack
UNIX systems. I never saw controller-integrated termination on such systems;
most of the time terminators would be ordered separately depending on the chain
you're building. You wouldn't be buying this stuff at a retail store, after
all, you'd be ordering from a VAR or the manufacturer's sales rep.
Using a PC with a SCSI HBA after that was sheer agony.
The only the worse than a PC with a SCSI HBA would be a PC with an ATA disk
where you had to pick the right disk from the list in the BIOS or it would all
go horribly, horribly wrong.
OK, maybe a PC with an ST-506 controller where you had to enter cylinders,
heads, sectors, interleave and all that rot by hand. And enter in the defect
list from the sticker on the chassis. And if you got it wrong you could trash
the head actuator.
Still got a couple of those....
Fortunately, I managed to avoid ESDI and SASI. But not IEEE-488....
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