vinum and hot-swapping

Andrea Venturoli ml.ventu at flashnet.it
Sun Jul 13 03:42:31 PDT 2003


** Reply to note from Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay at internode.on.net> Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:42:21 +0930


> > Shouldn't SCSI system allow paralell writes on different disks? 
>  
> Physical writes yes. But how does the data get there? 
> The SCSI bus (like any other) has a finite bandwidth.

Ok, but suppose you have an 80MB/s bus with 3 disks attached.
Not accounting for cache, I don't believe a disk will do 80/3=27 MB/s, so they actually can work in parallel, don't
they?

Obviously this is only an example...

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        av.





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