On 8/14/07, kelsey hudson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ralph Shumaker wrote:
>
> > Would a SCSI transfer be quicker between two disks on one controller or
> > on separate controllers? If memory serves me, I think I remember
> > something about SCSI being able to simultaneously copy one disk to six
> > others all at the same time while barely touching the CPU or system
> > memory. Is this even close? (Memory may be foggy, and I may have
> > misunderstood it to begin with.)
>
> Faster? Maybe. SCSI *can* busmaster, true. And, the controller can be
> programmed to do what you say.
>
You know, this is true in principle. But software support to send the
appropriate commands to the SCSI devices is scarce to non-existent.
carl
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