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- From: adh@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Sun's SCSI Target Addresses
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.111122.11659@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 11:11:22 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.151826.10568@emr1.emr.ca> <4914@calmasd.Prime.COM> <5gdycfa@rpi.edu>
- Organization: AT&T
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- In article <5gdycfa@rpi.edu> kyriazis@mistral.rdrc.rpi.edu (George Kyriazis) writes:
- "They are used. If I am not mistaken, your average SCSI <--> ESDI, or
- "SCSI <--> MFM converters can have 2 drives attached. One of them is
- "LUN 0, and the other one is LUN 1; both with the same SCSI ID.
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- you *should* be able to attach *4* drives to a converter -- it's in
- the esdi & mfm specs (max 4 drives/controller). at&t allows it with
- their (emulex-made) shoeboxes, but sun's implementation may be
- crippled... ;^>
-
- on second thought, why not 2 esdi controllers/converter & all 8 LUNs?
- for those really *big* disk farms. >^;
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- Andrew Hay "Do not fraternize with that creature, I am trying to train him"
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