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Subject: Re: IDE over scsi?
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On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> 
> has anyone heard of a device that you can put an IDE drive on, that will
> convert its interface to scsi?
> 
> sort of like a more intellegent bus mastering IDE controller?

  Yes, there are several of these.  They all support several IDE
drives simultaneously.  Generally they include some kind of
RAID functionality too.  The idea is to use cheap IDE disks for RAID, and
use RAID to improve performance and reliability of those cheap disks.

> .________________________________________________________________________ __ _
> |Alfred Perlstein - Programming & SysAdmin --"Have you seen my FreeBSD tatoo?"
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> 
> 

Tom