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From: bpv9073@sjfc.UUCP (Brett VanSprewenburg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A silly question...about PCs
Message-ID: <1777@sjfc.UUCP>
Date: 4 May 91 02:40:06 GMT
References: <3216@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> <901@cns.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <41587@cup.portal.com> <191126f1.ARN0079@nesbbx.UUCP>
Reply-To: bpv9073@sjfc.UUCP (Brett VanSprewenburg)
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In article <191126f1.ARN0079@nesbbx.UUCP> billsey@nesbbx.UUCP writes:
>In article <41587@cup.portal.com>, Dana B Bourgeois writes:
>
>: Is there a reason why no programmer has followed up with a SCSI network?
>

>	I think the biggest reason is first that very few, if any, of the
>SCSI cards for the Amiga support changing thier device ID, so you can only
>have one card per SCSI bus. Second, no one is doing the software to handle
>multiple hosts on a SCSI bus. Both of these have to be addressed before
>anyone could do a NET: style implementation on SCSI.
>

The Xetec controller does, and even the manual talks about more then 1 
computer using the same drive.  Essentially a small SCSI network. They
also speak of using MORE then 2 computers on the SCSI bus. The SCSI 
controller device can have it's ID changed two ways: new ROM from XETEC
or in the INFO of the Xetec device driver icon. Nice eh? Need more info?
Let me know.

==Brett