On 5 Jun, Alan Shieh wrote:
> I'm still concerned about the IDE
> enclosure though. When I last looked into 1394/IDE enclosures for
> clustering purposes (1 year ago), not all IDE enclosures supported the
> proper SBP-2 disconnect commands (excuse my imprecise language; I am not
> an expert on SCSI/1394 terminology) for sharing a target drive.
Do you mean "multiple initiator capability", i.e. several hosts
(initiators) may log in at the same time?
This is indeed not supported by many bridges. 1st, the link chip
must -obviously- support it. 2nd, the firmware of the bridge must
not criplle this capability. As for chip support for simultaneous
logins, we had a discussion here in early April that brought up
this list:
SBP2 link chip maximum concurrent logins
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LSI 501 rev B3 1
OXFW911 4
OXFW922 2
SYM13FW500 1
TSB42AA9 1
Ask the vendor before purchase.
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