Re: aic7xxx 5.0.10

[Hirsim{ki Mika <mhi alpha cc tut fi>]

> By the way, Microway's tech rep yesterday told me
> that the Adaptec could only handle three SCSI devices
> --surely that is not a SCSI "standard!"

    Certainly not. Could the Microway's representative have been
    talking about the SCSI-bus length limitation? If you have any
    external drives, it's likely that the bus length becomes 
    the primary limiting factor.

    I had a 2940UW on a DEC Alpha/Linux with two internal wide 
    SCSI hard drives and two external SCSI-devices. Up to that 
    point everything worked fine, but adding an external CD-R 
    drive to the chain was too much; the bus grew too long. A 
    dual channel adapter (3940UW) solved the problem.