Re: SCSI network

2008-04-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
a cheap solution why don't you equip you PC's with FireWire cards? But ask once again - i asked because i already have these SCSI controllers and they are unused. with firewire - it works fine, i know :) - fwip(4) somebody about the limitations there (IMHO you can make some sort of bus

Re: SCSI network

2008-04-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
with firewire - it works fine, i know :) - fwip(4) if talking about firewire, why on my system: fwohci0: Texas Instruments TSB43AB23 mem 0xf5005000-0xf50057ff,0xf500-0xf5003fff irq 18 at device 6.0 on pci5 fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=0) fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4.

Re: SCSI network

2008-04-01 Thread Patrick C
Perhaps on your motherboard, also possible they don't even make it farther than the pins of the controller chip. Lots of controllers have lots of ports that never get used. -Patrick On 31/03/2008, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: with firewire - it works fine, i know :) - fwip(4)

[OT] Re: SCSI network

2008-04-01 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 16:41 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: unmanaged switch will work much better :) I'd agree with that 100%- do the bandwidth math (not to mention the ease of setup): gigabit each way compared to a max of 320mb (I could be wrong on the exact figures, but the gigabit

Re: [OT] Re: SCSI network

2008-04-01 Thread User Wojtek
May I ask how that works? Everything I've read about scsi is that the throughput determines the standard: so 320MB has a throughput of ~320MB. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scsi) there is a bit (exactly 8 times) difference between megabit and megabyte

Re: [OT] Re: SCSI network

2008-04-01 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 14:45 +0200, User Wojtek wrote: May I ask how that works? Everything I've read about scsi is that the throughput determines the standard: so 320MB has a throughput of ~320MB. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scsi) there is a bit (exactly 8 times) difference between

Re: SCSI network

2008-03-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
unmanaged switch will work much better :) I'd agree with that 100%- do the bandwidth math (not to mention the ease of setup): gigabit each way compared to a max of 320mb (I could be wrong on the exact figures, but the gigabit is still faster). 320MB is 2560Mb not 320Mb 160MB/s is above

Re: SCSI network

2008-03-31 Thread Walt Pawley
On 3/29/08 1:17 PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote on SCSI network they are all adaptec (ahc driver) controllers - manual says it can be target as well as initiator Others have been discussing the potential speed of such an arrangement. I'm more concerned about SCSI bus addressing being a problem

Re: SCSI network

2008-03-31 Thread Robert Jesacher
On 31.03.2008, at 21:53, Walt Pawley wrote: On 3/29/08 1:17 PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote on SCSI network they are all adaptec (ahc driver) controllers - manual says it can be target as well as initiator Others have been discussing the potential speed of such an arrangement. I'm more

Re: SCSI network

2008-03-30 Thread Dan Nelson
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

Re: SCSI network

2008-03-30 Thread Da Rock
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 22:34 -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: 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!

SCSI network

2008-03-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
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