The same rule holds true with internal devices. I have on occasion installed
a total of 7 devices internal on a 9X8. Depending on your internal
configuration you could add external devices to the SE SCSI connector off of
the MFIO....


In article <[log in to unmask]>,
  Bill Lancaster <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hi Jack,
>
> HP recommends no more than 4 drives per single ended SCSI controller.  Even
> if you fudged that a little, 10 is *way* too many.  You would likely end up
> with serious disk I/O performance problems.  Are you sure about the slot
> space??  Isn't there another s/e SCSI controller used for the internal disk
> and the DAT drive?
>
> Bill
>
> At 09:48 AM 6/23/98 -0400, Calandra, Jack wrote:
> >I have 4 HP6000 mass storage systems installed in my 987sx.  Each system
> has 2 3.5' half height 2 gig. Drives installed. The mass storage systems
> are paired off onto two separate single ended SCSI controllers.  Each
> controller has 4 devices presently connected to it.  I would like to max.
> out each system by adding 3 more 2 gig drives to each 6000 system.  That
> would make a total of 10 devices per single ended controller.  My problem
> is that I do not have any additional slots available to add more
> controllers and fast wides are not an option.  So my question is, how many
> devices are supported on a Single Ended SCSI controller and how do I set
> the SCSI address switches??
> >
> >Any help would be appreciated
> >
> >Jack Calandra
> >AIG New York
> >
> >
>


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