Les wrote: > On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 21:20 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: >>> There was also EIDE. >> EIDE, IDE, Fast-ATA and similar names are all essentially marketing names >> for the same ATA interface. >> >>>> in commercial applications. Sun Systems almost exclusively used SCSI >> No - older Sun systems used Xylogics interfaces. >> > I guess I should have added a date to that statement.... Absolutes will > get you every time. My personal experience with Sun dated from about > 1990, and the systems I opened up had only SCSI in them. Sun servers from that time frame could be used with Xylogics controllers to talk to SMB disks. Most of the workstations had external SCSI ports and you could buy external disks to hang on your external SCSI cable chain. > Regards, > Les H > -- Kevin J. Cummings kjchome@xxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cummings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Registered Linux User #1232 (http://counter.li.org) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
