Re: sharing SCSI disks

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 21 Mar 1997 23:19:21 +0000 (GMT)

> Can I ask over what type of conduit you would do this with? A six-foot
> scsi cable? Fiber? I understood that scsi couldn't handle long
> distances.

SCSI over normal cable is short distances, but this is for clustering
machines rather than long distance links.

> Also, although the scsi bus does 40mbytes, aren't the devices typically
> 10mbytes max?

Ultra SCSI controller->controller doesnt have any disk heads in the way

Alan