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- From: vail@tegra.COM (Johnathan Vail)
- Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: Attaching/removing a SCSI drive on running system
- Message-ID: <3474@atlas.tegra.COM>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 17:44:48 GMT
- References: <13552pINNidq@agate.berkeley.edu> <Br2B9H.64q@csn.org>
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- <1992Jul12.160554.1731@oetl1.scf.lmsc.lockheed.com> <1992Jul24.140849.3227@kth.se>
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- In-reply-to: ragge@nada.kth.se's message of 24 Jul 92 14:08:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul24.140849.3227@kth.se> ragge@nada.kth.se (Ragnar Sundblad) writes:
-
- I had another idea, I don't know if it would be hard
- to implemented:
- If it would be possible to make a "transparent" on/off-switchable
- scsi-tranceiver (maybe there are such devices on the market),
- so that one could split the bus into two electrically separated
- buses, the tranceiver could be made to switch on or off only
- when the bus is idle.
- Something like this:
-
- <================> main SCSI Bus
- |
- |-----------------|
- +-----+ +----------------+ +---------------+
- | xvr |<---+-| busy inhibitor |<------| on/off switch |
- +-----+ | +----------------+ +---------------+
- | | +-------------------+
- | +------>| drive pwr control | (<- fancy extra fature)
- | +-------------------+
- <=======> detachable bus ||
- | ||
- +------------------+ ||
- | removeable drive |<============ power
- +------------------+
-
- What do you think, are there any such "scsi-tranceivers" on the
- market, or could they easily be made? Comments?
-
-
- I assume that your busy inhibitor is a SCSI target than can answer
- SELECTIONs with BUSY status while the removable is removed?
-
- SCSI bus transceivers have some kinks to them but are not that
- difficult. We electriclly hot-switch SCSI devices between buses in
- several products.
-
- jv
-
-
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