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From: greg@uop.EDU (Greg Onufer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.m68k
Subject: Re: What to do with SASI?
Keywords: Disk, SASI, VME
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Date: 23 Mar 90 01:35:08 GMT
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hue@netcom.UUCP (Jonathan Hue) writes:
>Ok, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you can use SCSI disks on
>a SASI bus as long as there is only one initiator on the whole bus (no
>arbitration phase).

And, most importantly, there is no support for disconnect/reconnect.
This means while a device such as a tape drive is rewinding, the
bus is locked.  Sun 2 (multibus) SCSI basically is SASI and this
becomes a rather nasty problem.  But, yes, standard SCSI 
peripherals work just fine.

Cheers!greg