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SubjectRe: Scheduled Transfer Protocol on Linux
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In message <E12K9MA-0004CF-00@the-village.bc.nu>, Alan Cox writes:
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| Its actually kind of the other way around. A modern IDE drive is a cut down
| SCSI drive and firmware with some legacy mode glue added. ATAPI is most of
+--->8

True, ATAPI re-added most of the intelligence IDE was invented to cut
away....

| > with STP networking differ only in that they're potentially a little more
| > general, and that you need to use slightly newer (but common) hardware and
| > code to implement it.
|
| SCSI as a networking protocol is possible but needs a carrier layer. Thats
+--->8

Hm, I'm not being sufficiently general in my comments, I guess. I wasn't
intending to imply that SCSI was a full-blown network protocol, just that
it's complex enough to be equivalent to one in terms of the infrastructure
required to support it.

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