Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 11:53:56 -0500 From: "John M. Ruschmeyer" <jruschme@csc.com> To: "'Bill/Carolyn Pechter'" <pechter@shell.monmouth.com> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Smart Connex PM2001 SCSI -- IDE+SCSI Message-ID: <01BBFEEC.F8248320@etn182.armyyp>
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---------- From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter[SMTP:pechter@shell.monmouth.com] Sent: Friday, 10 January, 1997 2:29 AM To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Smart Connex PM2001 SCSI -- IDE+SCSI >> The two technologies aren't interchangable, ie you can't have an IDE and a >> SCSI device on the same chain. > >Wanna bet -- not on the same cable (bus) but on the same controller looking >like one drive... > >Actually, Longshine made a controller that would mix SCSI and IDE drives >into one large striped disk. It looked like a WD1003 MFM controller >to Dos and Linux (I think Linux). It didn't support CDROMS or Tape. >(Imagine the striped mess...) Actually, that's not *quite* correct. The IDE drive would look like one drive. All the SCSI drives would then be RAIDed together into a single large drive. (I have no idea how it determined what blocks to put on what drive.) It did work well with Linux. I also seem to remember getting some version of BSD to install on it. (Probably and old 386BSD.) <<<John>>>
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