Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!pikes!bscott From: bscott@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Ben M Scott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: A2091 & Removable media Summary: SCSInet and the LAN? Keywords: SCSI SCSInet 2091 Message-ID: <3282@pikes.Colorado.EDU> Date: 15 Feb 90 05:04:11 GMT References: <16249.AA16249@slaka.sirius.se> <1930.AA1930@atronx> Reply-To: bscott@pikes.Colorado.EDU (Ben M Scott) Organization: University of Colorado, Denver Lines: 26 In article <1930.AA1930@atronx> rwm@atronx.UUCP (Russell McOrmond) writes: >with someone some time ago, and there was mention about SCSINet - A host >controller supposedly has the ability to run as a Slave as well as a host, >and the possibility of having more than one host controller on the same >chain exists - This concept extended, would give a very quick Local Area >Network (As well as automatic 'Drive Sharing' ;-). The possibility of >inter-machine-task communication (Maybe using similar ideas to the DNET >concept, keeping compatable with existing code, etc - sounds very intersting). >Any comments on the possibilities? I have a VERY limited knowledge of SCSI (I The board I run (Arvada 68K) is owned by a co-author of B.A.D. who runs SCSInet on his system, between two A-1000s and an indeterminate number of drives... it works well; to add another drive all he needs to do is splice a pair of connectors somewhere along the bus and hook in. I'm told the Amiga implementation of SCSInet was published by CLtd. Anyway, I don't think it would make much of a LAN, mainly because SCSI is limited to 7 units and as far as I know SCSInet is limited to two hosts. Also, when a drive or partition is mounted on both machines, a write to it from either machine requires a diskchange on the other to update the bitmap. Plug alert: Watch for the new update, B.A.D. 4.0 in less than one month! Totally rewritten, and features true virtual memory and extremely fast operationover V3.15. And from the same company, HyperBack, the new HD backup supporting just about everything, and using a proprietary floppy write format that can achieve 1 megabyte per minute! . <<<>>>