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- From: mike@Turing.ORG (Michael Chapman)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Which HD-Controller is better? 2091 or GVP
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.023723.1340@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 02:37:23 GMT
- References: <1992Oct28.225934.7744@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> <68741@cup.portal.com> <p3kXr*qg0@disaster.hacktic.nl>
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- Organization: The Turing Project, Charlottesville Virginia.
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- In article <p3kXr*qg0@disaster.hacktic.nl> rico@disaster.hacktic.nl (Rico Jansen) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov3.210353.25329@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, Don mac phee writes:
- >
- >> >]>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)
-
- You might get some very interesting signal loss with a cable long
- enough to support such a scenario. :)
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- I hate to toot my own horn...
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- But I guess being flexible has its advantages.
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