Since we are talking about 1/4" tape drives

[Jules Richardson]

Alexandre Souza - Listas wrote:
>>   I do. :)  I don't much relish the idea of connecting a big thick 
>> SCSI cable between two computers when the connection is going to end 
>> up being temporary.  It just sounds like a pain.
> 
>    BTW, may I ask some stupid questions about SCSI here?
>    - Can I connect one computer to another thru SCSI?

 From what I remember, the protocol allows it - and I seem to recall using 
some SGI systems that did this. Whether any modern commodity OS supports it 
though, I don't know - e.g. I think as recent as three years ago, Linux would 
barf if you tried to do it; the kernel code[1] just wasn't designed with the 
possibility in mind. Perhaps that's "fixed" now.

[1] I think it may have been a driver issue rather than a fundamental problem 
with the core SCSI code, though - nobody coded the drivers to expect it, 
because nobody out there was crazy enough to be doing it :-)

>    - Can I connect a 80-pin device to a 50-pin controller?

I've done it, but I'm not sure if it's part of the spec and therefore that you 
can expect it to work with whatever devices you throw at it.

>    - Where to find cheap cables and HP sleds? :)

This is SCSI we're talking about - you don't want to be using cheap cables :-)

cheers

Jules