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From: michelr@xstor.UUCP (Michel Rynderman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Adaptec converter cards and the mac...
Summary: Each SCSI id can have 8 LUN
Message-ID: <202@xstor.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 90 21:52:44 GMT
References: <9008291929.AA09414@thunder.LakeheadU.Ca> <1990Sep2.042215.255@cbnews.att.com> <1990Sep14.050047.2323@dhw68k.cts.com>
Reply-To: michelr@xstor.UUCP (Michel Rynderman)
Organization: Storage Dimensions, Inc.
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In article <1990Sep14.050047.2323@dhw68k.cts.com> emmayche@dhw68k.cts.com (Mark Hartman) writes:
>joe@cbnews.att.com (Joseph Judge) writes:
>
>>       The Mac expects *one* drive per SCSI ID. A board can have only one
>>       ID. So, you can only hang one drive off of one board for the Mac.
>
>What's interesting about this, Joe, is that my SCSI ID #3 is a dual-drive
>IOmega Bernoulli Box 2, and it runs both drives just fine.
>
>Just my $0.02....
>-- 
>------------
>Mark Hartman


According to SCSI there can be 8 devices per scsi id. All have the same id
but their logical unit numbers that are specified in the command allow up to
8 devices. Some drives support this, some don't. The one controller card on
the main drive handles the commands for all the drives.

Michel Rynderman
Storage Dimensions, Inc.
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