12 Aug
2012
12 Aug
'12
11:53 p.m.
On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 20:32:18 -0400
Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
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, ...)
FireWire was never intended as a direct disk interface. It playes more
in the leage of USB. (BTW: USB disks use SCSI commands too...)
Damn suits and their greed.
Greed, ignorance,
arrogance and stupidness.
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