16 Mar
2006
16 Mar
'06
1:55 a.m.
On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 20:22:36 -0000
"Antonio Carlini" <a.carlini at ntlworld.com> wrote:
The interface was DSSI, which appears to have been
loosely
based on SCSI (except more tightly specified than SCSI
was at the time). It allowed a sort of "poor-man's cluster"
to be built without having to purchase expensive HSCs etc.
I may be wrong, but
AFAIK:
DSSI is not even loosely related to SCSI. DSSI is a complete CI
implementation, but uses a parallel bus cable instead of coax cable and
a star coupler as physical transport. Even the DSSI adapter is software
compatible to the CI adapter. SCSI is a mass storage interface where
DSSI is more some kind of a SAN.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
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