In message <20000213115252.A628@best.com>, Karen Shaeffer writes:
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| The original proposal from Larry McVoy was to replace the electronics now
| inside a disk drive with an embedded general purpose processor. I'll repeat
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So? This differs from current SCSI drives only in degree, not in kind. If
the drive vendors felt the need to do it, I feel quite certain they could do
it, and in sufficient volume to make it competitive with high-end SCSI.
| Imagine that cheapo IDIE drives could be bought soon with 100BaseT and
| not so soon with GigEth over copper connecters. They cost about $100
| more than your current IDE drives (which are essentially free :-)
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| Imagine Linux with STP in the kernel on _both_ ends of the connection.
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Right, "simple" NASD drives in a private SAN. This differs from SCSI
exactly how?
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We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
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