On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Tothwolf wrote:
> > No, I have 10 half-height 5.25" drive bays. 10 full height would
> > actually be 20 half-height, which would be insane :)
>
> Hey! I have a dual tower SCSI case (alas, missing its faceplate and drive
> sleds) that has 8 full height or 16 HH openings in it. I don't think that
> is too insane :P
Ok, I want one :)
> > I'm going to use SCSI Wide so I can get up to 15 devices on the chain.
>
> Well, that only works for *wide* devices. Most all of the tape drives
> you'll be needing that are SCSI will be the narrow variety. Some will be
> 10Mb/s (fast SCSI), but a large number of the older drives will be 5Mb/s.
SCSI Wide also supports plain old SCSI devices. I'm running such a
configuration in my web server (3 SCSI Wide drives and 2 SCSI-2)
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