On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 11:51:46AM -0600, Gregory G Carter wrote: > Despite what people would have you believe, SCSI isn't going away. I > read about SERIAL ATA blah blah better blah blah faster... I talk to lots of vendors. Parallel SCSI is dead, just the momentum keeps it alive (existing installs, habit etc). > SCSI is designed to be a complete I/O sub system unto itself, and it can > operate quite nicely without the CPU. So can SATA (and parallel ATA) > to take that because this is so, IDE is overtaken SCSI. IDE has always > overtaken SCSI in sheer numbers, but to suggest less work or work is > dropping on the SCSI subsystem support for storage is a bit much. The linux "scsi" subsystem is a "scsi command" subsystem not a scsi as in zillion wires, terminator nightmares driver. SCSI the command set is a live and well - IDE ATAPI is SCSI command, USB storage is SCSI command, FC is SCSI command, iSCSI is SCSI command.. only ATA and floppy really doesnt follow that command model nowdays. Alan