[Re: [SunRescue] Any experience with IDE to SCSI adapters???]

[Nick Kociuk]

On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, Ken Hansen wrote:

> SCA<->Narrow is not a protocol change (as SCSI<->IDE is) as much as it is
> exploiting the design of the drive. These drives are made to accept narrow
> data
> paths, the adapters simply terminate parts of the "wide" path to make them
> compatible. There is no logic on an SCA<->Narrow adapter that interprets
> every request like an SCSI<->IDE adapter.

this is off-topic, but i think it's interesting that ATAPI devices (eg
IDE CD drives and zip drives) do this very thing (SCSI<->IDE).  ATAPI
is just an IDE command wrapper for SCSI CDBs.