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Re: (Network Connections)



David E A Wilson (david@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au) wrote:

: >SCSI Disks<--->Computer<--->SCSI CABLE<--->Computer<--->SCSI Disks

: You mean each Computer has two SCSI cards (aka Host Adapters)
Yes.  What would happen is that each computer still sees
all of the disk drives but a request from Computer A to
Computer B's disk drives is routed through Computer B.
Which, if Computer B is reading or writing to the same disk
drive, Computer B can then monitor/correct/
restrict/whatever the operation which Computer A wishes to
do.  This type of set-up basically makes each computer a
disk drive controller or file server (if you will).

: >Computer<--->SCSI Disks<--->Computer

: Unless you have a SCSI card with firmware designed for this.
Yes, that is true.  But I do not have a CirTech SCSI card
and I do not know how many others have them as well.  So
one proprietary SCSI card is good - but will probably not
be the card which everyone else is using.

: Cirtech's system was really quite flexible except that it does not read
: Apple standard partition tables...
Well, that could cause problems then - couldn't it?

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