multiple SCSI hosts

[Alan Cox]

> significant SPOF problems of its own. The switching fabric, which negotiates
> amongst participants looks like the most serious one. Thats a single piece of
> electronics negotiating amongst multiple fibres, is it not? The electronics should
> have a much lower failure rate that the mechanics of the drives, so it offers some
> real availability benefits (somewhat like a RAID box does). It does seem like a


You can have multiple links or fabrics. The boxhill kit I borrowed had
two fibrechannel loops across all the drives.