Subject: Re: NetBSD/vax QBUS IDE?!
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Carl Lowenstein <cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/27/2002 08:40:56
> Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 18:08:16 -0800 (PDT)
> From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla@jarai.org>
> To: James Lothian <simul8@simul8.demon.co.uk>
> cc: port-vax@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: NetBSD/vax QBUS IDE?!
> 
> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, James Lothian wrote:
> 
> > Slightly off-topic, has anybody tried using a scsi/ide bridge
> > (e.g. the ones sold by www.pc500.net) with any of the common
> > Unibus/qbus scsi cards?
> 
> I'd imagine that it would work, but it seems a bit of a waste to hang
> IDE drives off of perfectly good SCSI controller!

Only if you want the large storage capacity of the current IDE drives,
at the current low price point.  

    carl
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    carl lowenstein         marine physical lab     u.c. san diego
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