James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 18:49 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Please keep in mind: all CD/DVD burners are SCSI devices.
>
> This is probably semantics, but nowadays, SCSI means SPI (or parallel
> SCSI). I think you're trying to say that they're all devices that obey
> the MMC standard? Which is true, but not really relevant.
>
> > You cannot write or even retrieve special information without SCSI.
I am not sure if you did ever have a look at t10.org.
SCSI is a widely used protocol that is supported over many different transports.
SPI is as dead as PATA and note that SAS controllers will transparently handle
even SATA devices.
SCSI supports many more devices than MMC and SCSI runs on many different
transports.
The SCSI protocol layer has been separated from the transport layer in the
early 1990s. Please do not try to make asumptions based on outdated information.
Jörg
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