SCSI Bus Problem?

From: Russ Blakeman <rhb57_at_vol.com>
Date: Mon Feb 11 17:38:29 2002

Do the old narrow devices even support the ID's over 7? I didn't think that
cam eout until wide devices.

=> -----Original Message-----
=> From: owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
=> [mailto:owner-classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Tothwolf
=> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2002 5:06 PM
=> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
=> Subject: Re: SCSI Bus Problem?
=>
=>
=> On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Geoff Reed wrote:
=> > At 12:34 PM 2/11/02 +0000, you 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.
=>
=> What can't be done, is put 15 narrow devices on one wide
=> channel. Well, at
=> least and have them all work anyway.
=>
=> -Toth
=>
Received on Mon Feb 11 2002 - 17:38:29 GMT