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From: rich@documail.UUCP (Rich McCallister)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI-to-SCSI instead of NULL modem
Summary: C-Ltd Shared SCSI
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Date: 18 Mar 91 14:47:16 GMT
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In article <47025@nigel.ee.udel.edu>, 874226@watt.usask.ca (Shawn Switenky) writes:
< I think that C-Ltd had a product which allowed you to connect up
< two Amigas across the scsi port and share the devices between the two.
    They did have such a product.  It had some problems, tho, operating with
the AmigaDOS in-RAM maps of modified blocks. This made it unsafe to allow
two Amigas to write to the same partition of the same disk. "SCSI-Net", I
think it was called. I bought a C-Ltd controller, in hopes of using SCSI-Net
someday.
    Several months ago, I talked to a fellow at the firm that now handles
Kronos controllers (Micro-Dyn, Inc., of Witchita, Kanasas).  When I asked
him if I could use SCSI-Net to connect a Kronos controller and an older,
non-DMA controller, he said yes; but he warned me that there were so many
restrictions to its use that I would probably not like it. He claimed there
was only one place he knew of where SCSI-Net was in use, and that was by
the folks who developed it (apparently, not at Micro-Dyn). He seemed to 
prefer to not sell me a Kronos controller, rather than selling it to me
under the assumption that I would use it with SCSI-Net.