[wplug] Re: SCSI compatibility -- SCSI disconnect, LVD v. SE signaling, etc...

[Michael Skowvron]

> 1.  SCSI-2 protocol and device disconnect/negotiation

Perhaps you can confirm what I was told about arbitration. I was told by 
someone that on a parallel SCSI channel, the devices are "serviced" (for 
lack of a better word right now) in SCSI ID order. In other words, if 
several disks on the chain are all ready to transfer data to the host, 
the device with the lowest SCSI ID will allways win or communicate 
first. On a heavily utilized SCSI bus, this can have the effect of the 
lower ID devices gaining somewhat of a priority advantage of the higher 
ID devices.

Michael