13 Aug
2012
13 Aug
'12
1:16 a.m.
On 08/13/2012 02:53 AM, Jochen Kunz wrote:
Yes, a direct answer to FibreChannel.
Yep.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
And there
are several kinds of SCSI that don't use ribbon cables.
SSA, SAS, FibreChannel, and FireWire come to mind. All SCSI, just on
different transport mechanisms. We don't even need all of THOSE serial
varieties of SCSI, but we have them. We certainly don't need SATA, but
we have it anyway.
Well.
SSA was IBM proprietary. SAS is OK.
FC is OK, but FC-AL as a direct disk interface showed its age.
(Signaling, speed, bus topology, ...)
They went to 4Gbps, and could've gone to 6 or 8 (maybe did, not
sure)...and nobody has run them as loops for years, right?
FireWire was never intended as a direct disk
interface. It playes more
in the leage of USB. (BTW: USB disks use SCSI commands too...)
True.
Damn suits
and their greed.
Greed, ignorance, arrogance and stupidness.