From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 15 10:03:41 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA16883 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 10:03:41 -0700 Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id KAA16874 for ; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 10:03:31 -0700 Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0s0BEQ-000HzxC; Sat, 15 Apr 95 19:02 MET DST Received: by ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Smail3.1.29.0 #15) id m0s0B7D-0002OfC; Sat, 15 Apr 95 18:54 WET DST Message-Id: From: hm@ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: Just how fast can we go... (was: Re: SCSI target) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 18:54:35 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <199504150935.CAA18801@netcom21.netcom.com> from "Bakul Shah" at Apr 15, 95 02:35:24 am Reply-To: hm@altona.hamburg.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 899 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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 -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?