Path: utzoo!utgpu!vpk4!hjespers From: hjespers@vpk4.UUCP (Hans Jespersen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.i386 Subject: Re: ESDI vs SCSI Message-ID: <4725@vpk4.UUCP> Date: 13 Apr 89 20:30:22 GMT References: <98520@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <5436@lynx.UUCP> Reply-To: hjespers@attcan.UUCP (Hans Jespersen) Distribution: na Organization: AT&T Canada Inc., Toronto Lines: 23 In article <5436@lynx.UUCP> m5@lynx.UUCP (Mike McNally) writes: >Another big plus with SCSI is the ability to connect up to seven devices >to one controller. Granted, this might be sort-of insane, but it can >be done. Not to mention that each of the seven devices can be SCSI<->ESDI bridge controllers, handling four ESDI drives. Thus one SCSI controller can handle 7 * 4 = 28 drives. At 300 MB per drive your looking at 8.4 GB of storage. I'm not even going to get into multiple SCSI controllers. Actually, the ability to attach seven devices isn't that insane. Consider three 300 MB disks, one 125 MB cartridge tape, one 6250 bpi 9 track streaming tape, and your left with only two taps for your Optical Disk and SCSI <-> MIDI interface. ;-) -- Hans Jespersen UUCP: uunet!attcan!hjespers AT&T Canada Inc. or ..!attcan!nebulus!arakis!hans Toronto, Ontario #include "Yabba Dabba Doo" -- F. Flintstone