In a message dated: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 13:17:29 EST "Derek D. Martin" said:
>How is the SCSI card going to access the information on the IDE (i.e. >not connected to it) disks? It's not, it's just acting as a transport, just like your ethernet card doesn't access information from the IDE disks. > How is it going to ask the kernel for data from a logical device that > exists only in the construct of the kernel? It's not, the OS will be seen as a target on the scsi bus. The OS will be listening to requests coming *over* the scsi bus rather than initiating them. > Maybe I'm just not familiar enough with how SCSI works, but I > guess I'm still not getting it... It has more to do with that he wants to do something with SCSI that SCSI isn't necessarilly *intended* to do, but is theoretically *capable* of doing. Figuring out how to take advantage of this capability is what we're all trying figure out :) >Can SCSI controllers talk to SCSI devices attached to DIFFERENT SCSI >controllers? Probably if the 2 are daisychained or connected somehow. > That seems to be the only way this would work, to me... Well, no, since he doesn't have any SCSI disks, just IDE :) -- Seeya, Paul ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
