[4426] in linux-net channel archive
Re: SCSI -Reply
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Mon Sep 16 07:51:03 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: BUTTLES@inet.champlain.edu (Wayne Buttles)
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 11:11:39 +0100 (BST)
Cc: ALAN@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, LINUX-NET@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <9609152033.423ca038.CCC@INET.champlain.edu> from "Wayne Buttles" at Sep 15, 96 08:35:16 pm
> > funny cable capture effects). The NCR especially is
> > very interesting as it ought to be possible to use this
> > with the U-NET work for very fast message passing from
> > user space with no syscall overhead.
>
> SCSI has a very short cable length, right? So this would be
> limited to computers in close proximity? It sounds like a great
> idea for a super linux cluster. Is that what we are thinking?
16 machines at 40Mbytes/second within a few feet yes..
