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- From: jdow@BIX.com (Joanne Dow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: More than one SCSI adaptor on the SCSI bus?
- Date: 6 Feb 1996 10:11:36 GMT
- Organization: News Corp./MCI Online Ventures
- Message-ID: <4f79go$kjd@merlin.delphi.com>
- References: <DLzt6x.Mpt@uns.bris.ac.uk> <4ethrt$61f@tbd120.tbd.ford.com>
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- In article <4ethrt$61f@tbd120.tbd.ford.com>,
- Chris \"Big-Kahuna\" Rampson <crampson@ford.com> wrote:
- >ph3037@irix.bris.ac.uk (C. Dew) wrote:
- >>
- >>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 machines connected. (Of course you only
- >>have eight scsi ids, but it could be useful for small groups of computers, especially running
- >>different OSs!) Write caching and maybe read caching would have to disallowed on the attached
- >>computers, of course. Is this system possible, or just a stupid idea?
- >
- >It is possible, but the problem becomes "contention" - Which is when 2
- >controllers try to control the same device at the same time.
-
- SCSI is specifically designed to handle this problem with its selection and
- arbitration phases.
-
- >--
- >Owner and wielder of Occam's razor! (Committed to regula philosophandi)
- >
- > _/_/_/ _/ _/ Chris "Big Kahuna" Rampson M.S.
- > _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/_/ _/_/_/ crampson@ford.com
- > _/ _/ _/ _/_/ _/ _/_/ NO cutdowns, flames or insults
- >_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/ NO such thing as a stupid question!
- > _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ "NOT an OFFICIAL FORD spokesperson"
- >
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- {^_^} Joanne Dow, Amiga Exchange Editor on BIX, aka The Wizardess
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