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- From: fg@sucker (Ferdinand Geier)
- Subject: Re: SCSI computer to computer transfer?
- Organization: PCS Computer Systeme GmbH
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:44:54 MEZ
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.164454.6306@pcsbst.pcs.com>
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- References: <TT.93Jan21084653@tarzan.jyu.fi>
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- Tapani Tarvainen (tt@tarzan.jyu.fi) wrote:
- : In article <1993Jan20.130158.15414@klaava.Helsinki.FI> veijalai@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Tony Veijalainen) writes:
-
- : As far as memory-to-memory moves are concerned, of course SCSI bus
- : could be used as a general-purpose information channel, but whether
- : it can be done with any existing software/hardware combination,
- : I don't know. With the Macs certainly not.
- : --
- : Tapani Tarvainen (tt@math.jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)
-
- this combination exists! we have done (and still doing) this with
- our 'firebox', an i860-based SVR4 UNIX workstation. all you have to
- do is to modify your scsi device driver and build an IP/SCSI connection,
- let's say a IP-driver for scsi. it's quite fast!
- --
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