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From: bennett@mp.cs.niu.edu (Scott Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Two HAs on single SCSI bus
Message-ID: <1991Apr1.232550.21460@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 1 Apr 91 23:25:50 GMT
References: <1991Mar27.175719.3474@seachg.uucp> <1991Mar31.190347.4360@netcom.COM> <581@zds-ux.UUCP>
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In article <581@zds-ux.UUCP> gerry@zds-ux.UUCP (Gerry Gleason) writes:
>In article <1991Mar31.190347.4360@netcom.COM> feustel@netcom.COM (David Feustel) writes:
>>   [text deleted  --SJB]
>
>This is a lunitic fringe feature; not very common.

     I'm not quite sure what your point is in making this remark.  If
by "lunitic[sic] fringe feature" you mean that a) it is one that is not
often supported in SCSI (or anywhere else, for that matter) and/or b)
you'd have to be nuts to use a feature that is so poorly (in most cases)
supported, then your comment is more or less correct.  However, if you
mean that c) there is little use for such a feature and/or d) you'd
have to be nuts to want the functionality that such a feature *ought*
to provide, then you are clearly out of touch with how a vast portion
of computer systems work and are used.  The problem is usually that
the hardware implementation is almost trivial, while the software design
and implementation problem is almost intractable.  Even IBM has never
come up with a very reasonable version of it.  The need, however, is
*very* great.
>
>Gerry Gleason


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
                                  Systems Programming
                                  Northern Illinois University
                                  DeKalb, Illinois 60115
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