15 Nov
2007
15 Nov
'07
2:59 p.m.
On Nov 15, 2007, at 12:20 AM, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
Which reminds me of a comment I saw somewhere about the possibility
of having
a SCSI bus with more than one host adapter on it. Is that even
possible?
Absolutely...SCSI is a (mostly) peer-to-peer bus. You can easily
set up multiple "masters" ("initiators" in SCSI parlance) on a SCSI
bus if the hardware implements the spec in a reasonable way and the
OS' drivers can do something useful with the capability.
Communication between host adapters is also possible; I'm sure
I've even heard of "IP over SCSI" having been implemented.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007
This reminds me of one particular disk-copying
program, which
would have
the lights on both drives on solid. You could, once you'd
kicked off a
copying process, have unplugged the computer and it would just
keep on
going.
Both USB and SCSI have the device-to-device capability written into
some specs, but it's rarely implemented. ("USB on the go").