SCSI Bus Problem?

From: Julius Sridhar <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Mon Feb 11 17:25:00 2002

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Tothwolf wrote:

> > >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)
> >
> > Yup, sellam's right, be warned however that your SCSI bus will be hobbled
> > to the speed of the slowest device usually.
>
> Right. I'd certainly not mix wide and narrow devices on one channel.
> Termination of the bus is also often a pain when you do this.

A narrow device will not slow down a wide bus to narrow width. But a
10 MHz device will slow down a 20 MHz SCSI bus to 10MHz.

> What can't be done, is put 15 narrow devices on one wide channel. Well, at
> least and have them all work anyway.

Agreed.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Mon Feb 11 2002 - 17:25:00 GMT

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