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   Holger Granholm to Ed Vance   
   Re: SCSI Adapter Startup   
   02 Jun 15 09:23:00   
   
   In a message dated 05-31-15, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   GM Ed,   
      
    HG> What I find odd is that the SyQuest drive is shown as #0.   
    HG> Usually drive 0 is the boot drive and in a mixed IDE / SCSI   
    HG> setup that is always C: on an IDE drive.   
      
   EV> My boot drive isn't a SCSI drive so the SCSI Adapter isn't the first   
   EV> to be used on boot.   
      
   I know that and that was what I wrote above!   
      
    HG> Maybe the name is Adaptec. I've never heard of SCSI drivers   
    HG> made by Advance.   
      
   EV> No, its not Adaptec unless Adaptec bought out Advanced System   
   EV> Products.   
      
   OK. I don't recall that name among the SCSI controller manufacturers but   
   I don't know everything.   
      
   EV> I think the adapter is at least equal to Adaptec SCSI adapters since   
   EV> I see the numbers 0 and 7 when the adapter starts up.   
      
   Those numbers have nothing to do with the make of the controller.   
      
   EV> I'm fairly sure this adapter would accept 6 more SCSI devices if I   
   EV> set them to any of the 1 through 6 unused numbers.   
      
   Most do but I really don't know what limits there are in the simplest   
   controllers.   
      
   EV> I do read lots of Wikipedia pages, and that's O.K. up to a point   
   EV> since the pages are written by volunteers, and sometimes what I read   
   EV> there isn't what I know to be true.   
      
   That is the problem with Wikipedia and limits the usefulness of it as a   
   knowledge base/source.   
      
      
   73 de Sam, OH0NC   
      
   aka Holger   
      
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