This message generated a parse failure. Raw output follows here. Please use 'back' to navigate. From devnull@lkml.org Fri Apr 26 08:29:02 2024 Received: from entropy.muc.muohio.edu (entropy.muc.muohio.edu [134.53.213.10]) by herbie.ucs.indiana.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA12858 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 23:36:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from vger.rutgers.edu (vger.rutgers.edu [128.6.190.2]) by entropy.muc.muohio.edu (8.9.0/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA26569; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 23:22:45 -0500 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id <156184-30943>; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 12:41:01 -0500 Received: from famaf.fis.uncor.edu ([200.16.17.55]:1682 "EHLO famaf.fis.uncor.edu" ident: "root") by vger.rutgers.edu with ESMTP id <156674-31090>; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 11:58:21 -0500 Received: from burocracia.mafalda.org.ar (root@rcba1a10.impsat.net.ar [200.32.114.138]) by famaf.fis.uncor.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA01129 for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 15:43:56 -0300 Received: from hal.famaf.unc.edu.ar (really [192.168.1.1]) by mafalda.org.ar via in.smtpd with esmtp (ident john using rfc1413) id (Debian Smail3.2.0.101) for ; Wed, 30 Dec 1998 01:58:14 -0 Message-Id: <3689B2E4.983059AA@hal.famaf.unc.edu.ar> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 01:58:12 -0300 From: "John R. Lenton" Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fundaci=F3n?= Mafalda X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.1.132 i586) X-Accept-Language: en, es-AR, es, fr Mime-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel Subject: Drunken mumblings [OFFTROPIC] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Precedence: bulk X-Loop: majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu I have a terribly off-topic question that only surfaced in my mind because it could float better than most of my other questions (good grief I had *much* too much sider and junk at the party). I have *no* idea about what I'm talkin, feel free to ignore me, etc. It comes from an idle (i.e. slightly pickled) brain that just caught up with all the postings on how lousy NFS, CODA, and Co. all are. Can a SCSI cable be used to connect computers? I mean, can a computer be daisychained with say a hard disk? In theory at least? Using a special card? +---+ +---+ +---+ | | | +-+ | | | | +--/+ | | A |===| |==| B |====| C |===| |==/~/==| +---+ +-+ +---+ +---+ +---+ | Space Computer HD Computer Computer Printer | Station Here A has a standard SCSI controller, B and C have 'whatever it takes'. A uses HD as an ordinary /dev/sda1 (say), and pushes/pulls stuff from HD as per B and C's request. A is effectively a fileserver for B and C, and the SCSI cable is effectively networking the machines. B and C could even print on A's printer. Come to that, would A have to be there? Probably, so that B and C don't muck up the HD. Well, but if this makes sense, isn't it the same as just having A, B and C on a separate network (say each with two ethernet cards, one for the whole net, and the other a 'private' net just for filesharing)? I don't know, but I think SCSI has less overhead because it assumes all "hosts" are "trusted", (I've never heard of a SCSI drive having to authentify itself), plus there's only one kind of transmission (is there? I'm totally ignorant). I'm probably not making any sense, or if I am somebody has done this already. Anyhow I'll regret having sent this. Cheers, John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/