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Authored by: complex_number on Friday, June 08 2012 @ 01:24 PM EDT |
There are numerous different SCSI Standards.
The most common were Single Ended. Only one bus master was allowed.
Later on, Differential SCSI allowed for Dual Hosting.(2 masters or CPU's)
Later (and cheaper) Dec Clusters could use SCSI as its cluster interconnect. You
could also use Ethernet as a cluster interconnect.
We had a 12 node Cluster all connected by Ethernet. THere were even diskless
cluster nodes.
All in the 1980's.
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Ubuntu & 'apt-get' are not the answer to Life, The Universe & Everything which
is of course, "42" or is it 1.618?
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Authored by: tiger99 on Saturday, June 09 2012 @ 08:26 AM EDT |
The useless Netgear SC-101 "toaster", which seemed to be a NAS box, turned out
to actually be a SAN, using a daft OS and proprietary protocol, which made it
Windoze only, but was shareable between many machines on the network. Therefore
it was effectively a shared remote drive, or RAID pair of drives. Netgear
suffered severe damage to their reputation over that one. Performance was
miserable, which may have been due to the Windoze drivers, or the OS, or the
file system. They must have paid a lot of money for the proprietary code, while
their competitors were making genuine NAS boxes, almost always based on FOSS
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