[4419] in linux-net channel archive
Re: SCSI -Reply
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Drew Eckhardt)
Mon Sep 16 03:30:06 1996
To: "Wayne Buttles" <BUTTLES@inet.champlain.edu>
cc: ALAN@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, LINUX-NET@vger.rutgers.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 15 Sep 1996 20:35:16."
<9609152033.423ca038.CCC@INET.champlain.edu>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 00:03:35 -0600
From: Drew Eckhardt <drew@poohsticks.org>
In message <9609152033.423ca038.CCC@INET.champlain.edu>, BUTTLES@inet.champlain
.edu writes:
>SCSI has a very short cable length, right?
It depends on what you mean by "SCSI" and "very short". SCSI-II allows for
a 6 meter cable length in single ended installations; and 25 in differential.
I believe much less (3.0 meters rings a bell, but don't quote me) is
allowed for in FAST20, UltraSCSI, or whatever they're now calling the
20MHz (and proposed 40MHz) parallel standards.
>So this would be limited to computers in close proximity?
In practice, yes.
>It sounds like a great idea for a super linux cluster. Is that what we
>are thinking?
IMHO, it would work very well for a Linux cluster/multi-computer,
multiple boxes in the same rack needing high-speed networking, and
network stack development.
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