6 May
2005
6 May
'05
6:31 p.m.
If we want to get into the "drive interfaces that
were the next big
thing but never quite caught on in the wide world", we can start
talking IPI :-).
Oh, that brings back memories.
Back when our SPARCserver 470s were new, I think we had IPI disk on
them.
IPI cabling looks a lot like SCSI cabling but
that's about all I can
say about the interface standard.
Well, a lot like Sun SCSI cabling of the time, in that it used DD-50
connectors. But the cables were DD50M on one end and DD50F on the
other, unlike the SCSI DD50M on each end. Similarly, each drive had a
DD50F and a DD50M, instead of the SCSI way of 2xDD50F on drives. I
remember noticing this specifically because it was the only obvious
difference between the IPI cables and short SCSI cables.
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