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- From: afarleig@tdsnet.com (AWFarleigh)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: More than one SCSI adaptor on the SCSI bus?
- Date: 3 Feb 1996 23:16:50 GMT
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- Anders Erlandsson (anderse@academy.bastad.se) wrote:
- :
- : C. Dew wrote about More than one SCSI adaptor on the SCSI bus?:
- : >I remember hearing a while ago that it was possible to put two or more scsi
- : >controllers on one scsi bus, so that scsi devices would be local to all
- :
- : You mean SCSI network? I had a Grandslam2000 before and there was
- : examples in the manual how to do it. What i have heard not all controllers
- : allow SCSI network. I never tried it.
- :
- : ---------------------------------------------------------------------
- : anderse@academy.bastad.se Anders Erlandsson
- :
- : HTTP://www.bastad.se/~anderse/index.html
- : ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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- :
-
- Hmm, AFAIK, you should be able to get two SCSI hosts on the same bus, as
- long as the host IDs don't collide (You should be able to change at least
- one of the host IDs). I am not sure if the host's SCSI software would
- fail if it was changed.
-
- Once they are connected, even though there would be contention between
- devices if more than one host tried to write at the same time, devices
- could be write-locked from one machine. Can the scsi-direct commands
- suffice for a high speed host-to host network?
-
- Surely, this would be a great asset, especially to those who have more
- than one amiga (many do!). Much faster (2-4x?) than ethernet. How about
- a SANAII<->SCSI-DIRECT driver so networks could use it natively?
-
- Rambles on...
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