On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 09:15:36AM -0600, John Maier wrote:
> > A better solution is what's already being discussed: an MSCP server on a
> > Qbus card. While I'd personally prefer SCSI to IDE, the ability to put any
> 
> Ummm...Actually SCSI vs. IDE argument goes away, in this case, because:
> 1) Qbus can't even hope to keep up with most any off the shelf EIDE drive made in the last
> few years.
> 2) Using a processor to talk to the IDE, for the VAX, is tantamount to the SCSI
> intelligent controller concept.
> 
> I.e. if I were really bent on it (and I'm not) I could make a controller to which you
> could connect an IDE drive.  On the other side, I could talk out SCSI, then you could hook

Hey, this already exists :)

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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