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From: courtney@tonto.es.com (Courtney Goeltzenleuchter)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Mixing sync and async SCSI devices
Keywords: SCSI async sync
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.201602.10592@dsd.es.com>
Date: 22 Feb 91 20:16:02 GMT
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In article <1991Feb22.071227.26612@msen.com>, osm@msen.com (Owen Scott Medd) writes:

> If I mix sync and async SCSI devices on the same bus, do I force *all*
> devices on the bus to be dealt with as async devices?

No, you don't force all the devices to be async.  It is the job of the initiator
(typically the host CPU) to negotiate with each target device whether or not the initiator will use syncronous transfers with that target.
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