[geeks] New 2.5" SCSI HDs???

[Jochen Kunz]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:05:47 +0000
Mike Meredith <very at zonky.org> wrote:

> As others have said, SATA is more like SCSI than IDE.
AFAIK ATA/ATAPI is already almost SCSI over IDE cables. E.g. NetBSD
never distinguished SCSI and ATAPI CDROMs like Linux. They are all
driven by cd(4) and show up as /dev/cd?a. The same for IDE/ATAPI tapes,
they are handled by st(4). NetBSD can also attach a ATAPI disk with the
sd(4) driver.
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       Jochen

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