On Dec 11, 2007 11:23 AM, SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> begin quoting Carl Lowenstein as of Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 10:31:43PM -0800:
> > On Dec 10, 2007 5:14 PM, SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > That's only if you don't have another place to connect the extra drive.
>
> Yes. That was my hypothetical formulation. It's also the most common
> situation, as if I had an unused connector, I'd just add the drive and
> be done with it. It's when you run out of a resource that things get
> interesting.
>
> With SCSI, it seemed what I ran out of was places to plug in the
> devices. (And with 4 computers on my KVM, I'm running into that problem
> as well... too many external devices, all with their own cables and
> wallwarts.)
My experience with SCSI was that I ran out of SCSI IDs. Not places to
plug in, because SCSI disks, at least external ones, are
daisy-chainable. Eventually you also run out of allowable cable
length.
carl
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