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- From: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
- Subject: Re: SCSI Drives
- Message-ID: <C1KyrA.Iwu@smsc.sony.com>
- Sender: dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott)
- Organization: Sony Microsystems, San Jose, CA
- References: <19930126.070125.53@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 20:11:34 GMT
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- In article <19930126.070125.53@almaden.ibm.com>, heavy-metal@vnet.ibm.com writes:
- |> Actually, with the new SCSI-2 interface (68 pin P Cable) allowing fast and
- |> wide transfers, you can have up to 16 devices on a single
- |> SCSI cable. Just in case anybody cares (and most likely they don't . . . )
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- I'm a little confused.
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- From my understanding, SCSI supports 2 levels of devices. There are 8
- SCSI ID values, each corresponding to a SCSI controller. Each SCSI
- controller can have 8 "logical units". So, theoretically, you could
- have up to 64 devices on a single cable. Practically, though, even
- with SCSI-2, you really don't want to eat up your bandwidth, which is
- why systems with 2 SCSI buses are becoming more popular.
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- Where does your number 16 come from?
-
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