Re: Where to put what on scsi?

[Stephen Williams <steve icarus com>]

khansen@njcc.com said:
> No. The SCSI adapter will not give any device improved speed/
> performance based solely on it's ID number - the speed of access will
> be determined by the capabilities of the SCSI adapter and the SCSI
> device it is accessing.

Requests for the SCSI bus are arbitrated by ID number--igher numbers have
higher priority. However, once a device has the bus, it holds it for the
duration of the transaction.

The speed of the bus, once arbitrated, is obviously fixed by the endpoint
capabilities independent of ID number.

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