22 Apr
2012
22 Apr
'12
4:39 p.m.
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012, David Riley wrote:
I'm pretty sure the 53C9[0|4|6] chips can be run as both target and
initiator. They're not actually all *that* smart; they just have
some state machines for going through the more standard SCSI commands
and a DMA interface.
Indeed, they can. I once used some dual-53C96 TURBOchannel boards
to form a network between a VAXstation 4000/60 and a VAXstation 4000/96.
Did it to investigate what it took to write a network device driver
for VMS. Had DECnet and TCP/IP running over it, but the plug got
pulled before I could look at forming a cluster.
The point of using the dual-53C96 board was so that one chip on each
board could act as a target while the other acted as an initiator.
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roger ivie
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