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- From: rico@disaster.hacktic.nl (Rico Jansen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Which HD-Controller is better? 2091 or GVP
- Message-ID: <p3kXr*qg0@disaster.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 19:11:05 GMT
- References: <1992Oct28.225934.7744@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> <68741@cup.portal.com>
- Organization: HIN - Disaster Area
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- In article <1992Nov3.210353.25329@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, Don mac phee writes:
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- > >]>Which makes eight. SCSI devices are numbered 0-7, not 1-8.
- >
- > Therefore, you may have seven devices on your SCSI chain. The anchor being
- > the board.
- >
- > There *I* disputed it. Anyone else?
-
- Yep, me. SCSI supports something called LUN's.
- (look at the SCSI scanning of HDtoolbox).
- This means the every SCSI device can be subdivided in 8 sub units.
- You need a LUN-controller for that. If you use this method
- with *one* SCSI controller you can get 7*8=56 HD's of your system.
-
- Rico Jansen (rico@disaster.hacktic.nl)
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