Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 May 1999 11:27:09 -0500 (CDT) | From | "Andre M. Hedrick" <> | Subject | Re: Wish list for kernel 2.3 |
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On Mon, 17 May 1999, Kurt Garloff wrote:
> On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 11:47:21PM -0500, Andre M. Hedrick wrote: > > On Sun, 16 May 1999, Adam Sulmicki wrote: > > > > > And that brings me to interesting question. Would that be technically > > > possible to implement IP-over-EIDE ? I figure many cheap-but-good motherboards > > > come with inbuild EIDE controller, but no Ethernet. Would I want make > > > clustering, it would be quite easy to connect those motherboards via > > > EIDE cables. > > > > We can not even throttle up and down nicely any drive-adapter combination > > to date with the latest changes. You might be able to pull of this one > > with identical mainboards that are from the same lot, but any ideas of > > mixing between chipsets.........I won't go there......my head is reeling > > in pain already from this thought. > > For SCSI, it will be hard enough. But SCSI's design is for general purpose, > so it's possible without going crazy. Only the creators of SCSI chips didn't > expect to be in target mode ... > > And one more point: EIDE is max. 45cm in length, which does hardly allow a > reasonable cabling.
Thanks for making a better point of why not.............
Andre Hedrick The Linux IDE guy
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