27 Jan
2010
27 Jan
'10
1:12 p.m.
On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Philip Pemberton wrote:
Indeed. FireWire also uses the SCSI command set, as does
FibreChannel and IBM's SSA. There are lots of different transport
layers for SCSI that aren't called SCSI. Since this industry is
filled to overflowing with people who talk without knowing what
they're talking about, this has the unfortunate side effect of many
people thinking that SCSI is somehow "dead".
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Well to be
fair, IDE didn't exactly replace SCSI. ;) And,
interestingly, it's starting to look like SCSI drives will still
be produced after IDE drives are no longer being made.
Also bear in mind -- the USB Mass Storage protocol stack is
essentially a USB wrapper for the SCSI command set. SCSI is going
to leave its mark for a long time to come. Heck, ATAPI (usually
used for CD/DVD drive interfacing) is basically "SCSI over ATA"...