Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!isis!nyx!bscott
From: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Cos McCowboy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Multiple SCSI controllers
Summary: Multiple SCSI hosts = SCSInet?
Message-ID: <1028@nyx.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 90 11:25:24 GMT
References: <90146.174753BRANDON@ncsuvm.ncsu.edu>
Reply-To: bscott@nyx.UUCP (Cos McCowboy)
Organization: Public Access Unix - University of Denver
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In article <90146.174753BRANDON@ncsuvm.ncsu.edu> BRANDON@ncsuvm.ncsu.edu writes:
>
>  I was wondering if I could have multiple SCSI host controllers on the
>same cable run.  I have 2 amigas with SCSI controllers and one disk drive.
>Currently, I am using the parallel port network from the Software Distillery
>to have both computers access the same drive.

I think it's been done.  A developer friend of mine who's fairly knowledgable
about hard drives uses what he calls a SCSInet implementation from CLtd to
use 2 A-1000s and however many HDs he has at the present time on one ribbon.
He says it's nice because to add another HD he just cuts the ribbon, and splices
connectors on either end, and voila.

I don't know much else about it; I know CLtd is gone.  I don't know where you
could get this software, or if you even need custom software for this, or how
well it works.  I do know he has to do a Diskchange if he writes to a partition
that is mounted on both machines. (on the other machine)

>P.S. - To all you out there trying to get a 68000 running 'right' at 14MHz
>      Why not just go for a 68020?  Once you correct the signals to get
>      a 68000 running at 14MHz, you have nearly done everything necessary
>      to hook up a 68020 at 14MHz also.  (Except figure out how to route
>      the PGA signals to the right places on the 68000 socket...)

If you would care to inform me of the procedure, I'd be grateful... I can't get
the 14 Mhz hack to give me more than a Green screen, and I have a 68020
chip sitting around from the time I tried a CSA Midget Racer and found it don't
work with the A590... I'm a menace with a soldering iron but I've been filthy
lucky so far messing around with my 500.

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