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From: tls@cloud9.net (Thor Lancelot Simon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: F/W SCSI controllers
Date: 23 May 1995 04:58:25 GMT
Organization: Cloud 9 Internet, White Plains, New York, USA
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In article <3pr07c$8cc@serpens.rhein.de>,
Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de> wrote:
>tls@cloud9.net (Thor Lancelot Simon) writes:
>
>>Your vendor is lying.  The 53c810 is *not* wide SCSI, what's commonly 
>>called "SCSI 3".
>
>Wide SCSI is definitely something other than SCSI 3. I doubt that it

I know that.

>is commonly called so.

Unfortunately, many vendors of fast wide SCSI 2 devices, in this country 
at least, have in fact taken to calling them "SCSI 3", which is incorrect.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon                                               tls@cloud9.net

Somewhere they're meeting on a pinhead, calling you an angel.