That would be be great, but not likely,  a Ultra-wide interface would
pretty much consume the available bandwidth (32MB/s) of the HP-PB bus.
On the  9000's (N-CLASS), HP solves this by moving to the PCI bus.

On the 9000's K boxes, I think you have to use an HSC adapter bus
adapter to use UW on a SC10.


Mark Landin wrote:
>
> On Thu, 18 May 2000 17:28:02 -0400, Donna Garverick
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> >Dennis Heidner wrote:
> >
> >> The HVD10, is a dual bus box like the HAAS, with redundant fans, power
> >> suppies, etc, but it also has 10 hot swappable, slots instead of 8, and
> >> it supports the newer faster (30%) SCSI Ultra-Wide drives, with zillions
> >> of bytes of storage.
> >
> >but mpe doesn't do ultra-wide.....          - d
>
> The Bus Controller is still FWSCSI to the host, but Ultra SCSI to the
> disk devices. How's that for backwards? :) However, you can replace
> the FWSCSI controller with an Ultra controller and all-of-a-sudden you
> have an SC10, not an HVD10.
>
> I wish SOMEBODY made something faster than FWSCSI for the 9x9 systems
> (and the K- and D- class HSC systems on the 9000 side). I'm having
> this very discussion over on comp.sys.hp.hpux. The options are few ...
> as in zero, as far as I know.