Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 18:54:35 +0200 (MET DST) From: hm@ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: Just how fast can we go... (was: Re: SCSI target) Message-ID: <m0s0B7D-0002OfC@ernie.altona.hamburg.com> In-Reply-To: <199504150935.CAA18801@netcom21.netcom.com> from "Bakul Shah" at Apr 15, 95 02:35:24 am
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>From the keyboard of Bakul Shah:
> What we really need are *disks and tapes* that talk network
> protocols or a kind of simple distributed memory protocol.
Such devices are already underway, HP (and if i recall it correctly some
others as well) announced support for fiber-optic-channel devices some time
ago.
> SCSI needs to die.
SCSI-II is a good and well understood choice of interconnecting low and
medium speed devices. It's definitely better than ST506, QIC-02, HPIB,
SMD, ESDI. No doubt - it has limitations.
I remember well the times when people were forced to buy proprietary designed
peripherals because SCSI was not there, and i hope, they don't come back.
When will we have HIPPI Hardware and drivers ? :-)
hellmuth
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Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe
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