From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 15 23:22:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B4CB3F1A for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 23:22:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id IAA09903; Wed, 16 Feb 2000 08:20:34 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA06098; Tue, 15 Feb 2000 23:39:39 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wilko) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 23:39:39 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: David Scheidt Cc: Banu Ozden , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: scsi target mode Message-ID: <20000215233939.A6080@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <20000215194322.B597@yedi.iaf.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from dscheidt@enteract.com on Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 04:00:28PM -0600 X-OS: FreeBSD yedi.iaf.nl 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 04:00:28PM -0600, David Scheidt wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 11:39:24AM -0600, David Scheidt wrote: > > > > Maybe you can find Y-cables from DEC/Compaq. Or something we call a trilink, > > which has 2 female and 1 male connector. We tend to use trilinks on raid > > controllers. > > HP sells them, which means that you can get them from someone else for 1/3 > the money. I haven't got one to get a part number off of, though. Our VHDCI trilinks come from Amphenol I think. The HD68 variants I don't know. > > Generally speaking 'joining' machines into cluster(like) you want to > > use differential SCSI buses. > > Yes. Of course, I think that you want to use differential SCSI for > everything. Cableing is much easier, and much less fussy. It costs more > though. And consumes a bit more power due to all the external diff xceiver chips. For in-cabinet single-ended or LVD works just fine. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message