Subject: Re: Anyone working on ATA over Ethernet?
To: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/16/2005 14:37:09
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:10:00PM +0100, ragge@ludd.luth.se wrote:
> > Ignatios Souvatzis said:
> >=20
> > >Well, it was the Small Computer System Interface, I think...
> >=20
> > Which first appeared as SASI - Shugart Associates System Interface.
> >=20
> Wasn't SASI some sub-version of SCSI, which only could connect
> like one device per controller?  I remember the ABC computers had=20
> SASI cards in their S100 bus adapter.

Well, SASI came first, so SCSI would be more of a souped-up version. :-)

I think you could hook more than one device per controller, and I know you=
=20
could hook two disks to one SASI disk card. But I think SASI only had one=
=20
initiator per bus. I could be wrong about the multiple controllers per=20
bus, though. :-)

Take care,

Bill

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