[Gllug] Advansys SCSI Host Adapter

[Christian Smith]

Oh, OK, I didn't see the continuation of this thread (lack of references
broke the threading.) Disregard.

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Christian Smith wrote:

>On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, Tethys wrote:
>
>>
>>John Hearns writes:
>>
>>>Being pragmatic, you would probably be cheaper ditching the scanner and
>>>buying a new USB one. Depends though if you have a nice scanner which
>>>you like working with.
>>
>>Cheaper, yes. However, it doesn't seem like a good move to me. Scanning
>>is one of those areas where the benefits of SCSI *really* pay off. The
>>price difference may have forced me to switch to IDE disks last year,
>>but I'll be keeping my SCSI scanner as long as I can.
>
>
>Just curious, but what are the benefits of SCSI for scanning? The only
>benefit I can think of is, erm, er, it can be done on old boxes for which
>USB is not an option (like an old SPARC or somesuch.) What sort of
>bandwidth does scanning chew up? USB2 should have the legs of any SE SCSI.
>
>These days, USB has everything you could possibly need for scanning.
>I'm, of course, assuming that drivers isn't a problem.
>
>>
>>Tet
>>
>
>Christian (A SCSI bigot as well)
>
>

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