Subject: Re: Anybody know anything about the Asante EN/SC scsi?
To: None <Lloyd.Parkes@vuw.ac.nz>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/12/1999 12:55:33
On Fri, 12 Nov 1999 Lloyd.Parkes@vuw.ac.nz wrote:
> On 11 Nov, John Refling wrote:
> > This is a SCSI box which hangs off the ethernet network.
>
> It's sort of kind of the other way around. It is an ethernet adapter
> that hangs off the SCSI bus. I think it was designed to be used with Mac
> laptops. I think that SCSI was the only fast external I/O bus that some
> of them had, so if you wanted to add an ethernet, you had to settle for
> an ethernet box that plugged into your SCSI port.
Agreed. It's ethernet hanging off of SCSI. But it was mainly intended for
Mac boxes which didn't have expansion options. :-)
> It is quite possible that there are SCSI specs for this sort of thing.
While there are some specs for some SCSI-Ethernet devices, there aren't
for this one AFAICT. :-(
Take care,
Bill