Re: SCSI network

In the last episode (Mar 29), Wojciech Puchar said:
i have few Ultra160 SCSI controllers and two Ultra40, cables and few
machines that needs fast interconnect. i could use one gigabit card on each
machine+switch, but i already have it!

can i make external SCSI bus through all machines and use it to transmit IP
packets?

they are all adaptec (ahc driver) controllers - manual says it can be
target as well as initiator

I've never seen a SCSI IP implementation, but I guess it's
theoretically possible. Since SCSI uses a shared bus, though, the best
you could get would be a half-duplex network. Gigabit NICs and a cheap
unmanaged switch will work much better :)

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Dan Nelson
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