Re: [nottingham] sun 370-2176 tape drive

From: Robert Davies (rob_davies@ntlworld.com)
Date: Wed 15 May 2002 - 12:09:02 BST


On Tuesday 14 May 2002 23:07, you wrote:

> On a slightly different note, it's annoying to see fast scsi drives,
> placed on the same bus as a slow tape drive, thus slowing the whole
> chain down :-( (you see it mainly in pc 'servers' designed by bodge it
> and scarper merchants, I will mention no names...)

If it's using synchronous SCSI and the drive interface doesn't force whole
bus into backwards compatability, then the system wouldn't be affected.

Though I do like to keep tape drives on a seperate SCSI card, rather than in
same bus as a RAID array.

Rob
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