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From: Jason Marshall <marshall@isr.co.jp>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Socket drivers for SCSI
Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 19:08:43 +0900
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J Wunsch wrote:
>
> Jason Marshall <marshall@isr.co.jp> wrote:
>
> > A long time ago on a free Unix far far away, some folks bantered
> about
> > plugging two or more machines together on the same SCSI chain, and
> > thereby achieving networking of great speed. And I was wondering if
> > FreeBSD had such a thing (I am lacking the experience to code such a
> > beast myself, though I am a programmer).
>
> One of the fathers of {386,Free}BSD's SCSI code, Peter Dufault, once
> wrote me that he attempted to implement this idea. I'm not sure
> whether he ever got it to success. The biggest point, transfer speed,
> is now probably already moot due to the invention of 100 Mbit/s
> ethernet technology. (And i think you can use a crossover cable to
> connect just two machines, saving the costs of the hub.)
But Ethernet has some nasty contention problems that I assume (hope?)
SCSI does not. Isn't it easier to guarantee QOS on SCSI than on
ethernet? (assuming I am trying to do semi-realtime distributed
computing over the medium).
--
Jason Marshall http://isr.co.jp/people/marshall
International Systems Research marshall@isr.co.jp
Just because it works doesn't mean it isn't broken.