SCSI could connect to many things besides disks, like scanners and tape drives. You could even find SCSI to network adapters. It was fast for its day, too. There were also updated standards that ...

The drives are available in Ultra2 Wide SCSI, IDE/ATAPI ... of nearly all the company's drives to Hitachi Ltd. and its tape autoloaders and libraries to Solectron, said Saab.