Re: Adaptec AHA2940
Joachim Paulini (j.paulini@tu-bs.de)
Fri, 03 Jan 1997 17:49:03 +0100
In message <Pine.LNX.3.95.970103041233.349I-100000@fotd.netcomi.com> you write:
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>On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
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>> Ive been using an AHA2940 for ages, and it works fine. However, there are
>> some problems with changing SCSI adapters, e.g. a harddisk formatted with
>> an Adaptec controller sometimes wont work with a NCR controller, and vice
>> versa.
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>b..b..b..b..But... SCSI is supposed to be interchangeable, a fundamental
>goal of the interface design. This is alarming news. Is NCR or Adaptec
>at fault?
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NCR (now Symbios Logic) controllers and Adaptec controllers format disks
in different ways. However, NCR controllers are able to work with
Adaptec-formatted disks, but Adaptecs are not able to work with NCR-
formatted. You may reformat, but you lose your data.
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Joachim Paulini | Institut fuer Theoretische Physik
j.paulini@tu-bs.de | Technische Universitaet Braunschweig