On Thurs 10/9/97, Ken Nakata wrote:
>Just a minor nit-picking; I always thought lower SCSI ID had higher
>priority, i.e. you usually want the host adapter to have the lowest
>priority (in wide SCSI, it's conceivable that the host is ID 7 instead
>of the lowest priority ID 15, because otherwise you won't be able to
>talk to non-wide devices connected to wide bus).

Actually, the higher SCSI ID has higher priority.  Macs use initiator ID 
7, primarily 
because ID 0 was typically used by the drive - i.e. no jumpers).  It was 
also convenient 
to use ID 7 on the wide bus (as you point out, it works for both).  
Priority really 
doesn't matter.

..Harlan