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- From: fish@daacdev1.stx.com
- Subject: repost: is jag(7m) manpage wrong for number of jag boards allowed???
- Message-ID: <fish.724521796@news.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 16:03:16 GMT
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- this is a repost - i never saw it get thru or any replies
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- system: 440S os: 4.0.1
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- the jag(7m) man page sez six is the limit but the jag.h file seems
- to imply eight (if you have dual power channels) - maybe just an
- old manpage from before dual IO3's were released?
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- are any of the older SGI disk drives capable of fast scsi (underlying
- question is if we upgrade to cougar boards will we be able to use
- any of our existing devices on them - i think the disks are seagate
- 1.3GB, 8mm EXB8500, 4mm Archive/Python, Kennedy 9track)
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- or do we have to get new devices - would it make no sense to hang
- tape devices off of the 10MB boards - the drives aren't capable are they?
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- what new scsi-2 disks are available from SGI?
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- general scsi questions: are scsi-2 and fast scsi basically the same thing?
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- scsi-1 devices can be hung off of scsi-2 controllers (backward but not
- forward compatible) i guess not - man this is frustrating.
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- what does fast-wide give you? and where can i find out more about scsi
- without bothering good old dave (i'ld rather not read the IEEE spec or
- whatever it is that defines it all if possible)
-
- thanx,
- fish
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- John R. Vanderpool INTERNET: fish@daacdev1.stx.com
- NASA/GSFC VOX: 301-513-1683
- Hughes/STX Corporation FAX: 301-513-1608
- all this science, i don't understand; its just my job 5 days a week - rocket man
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