In message <E12K9MA-0004CF-00@the-village.bc.nu>, Alan Cox writes:
+-----
| Its actually kind of the other way around. A modern IDE drive is a cut down
| SCSI drive and firmware with some legacy mode glue added. ATAPI is most of
+--->8
True, ATAPI re-added most of the intelligence IDE was invented to cut
away....
| > with STP networking differ only in that they're potentially a little more
| > general, and that you need to use slightly newer (but common) hardware and
| > code to implement it.
|
| SCSI as a networking protocol is possible but needs a carrier layer. Thats
+--->8
Hm, I'm not being sufficiently general in my comments, I guess. I wasn't
intending to imply that SCSI was a full-blown network protocol, just that
it's complex enough to be equivalent to one in terms of the infrastructure
required to support it.
--
brandon s. allbery os/2,linux,solaris,perl allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator kthkrb,heimdal,gnome,rt allbery@ece.cmu.edu
carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering kf8nh
We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Feb 15 2000 - 21:00:26 EST