Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!usc!apple!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: hard drive controller definition; 14mhz motorola chip Message-ID: Date: 29 Nov 90 23:05:30 GMT References: <1827@xenon.kcl-cs.UUCP> <1990Nov29.185824.1990@sbcs.sunysb.edu> Lines: 16 >In article <1990Nov29.185824.1990@sbcs.sunysb.edu> dtiberio@libws3.ic.sunysb.edu (David Tiberio) writes: >What is a SCSI controller? > >It usually handles 8 hard drives. Almost. The SCSI bus allows 8 devices. Since the controller is one device on the bus, it can only have 7 drives hooked to it. There are allowances for extending this via having several devices hooked to different logical units on a single SCSI device, but these are usually not used. >David Tiberio SUNY Stony Brook 2-3605 AMIGA Toto Productions DDD Men -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |