[rescue] Netapp

[Dave McGuire]

On July 3, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> The other thing is that really, IDE is not a bus.  It is just a high speed
> parallel(or is it serial?) interface.  The IDE protocol is so stupid that
> they had to steal the most common SCSI commands and stick it on top of a
> lame protocol to be able to easily support all the devices (Zip, CDROM,
> CDRW, drives, etc.)

  It's parallel.  It's basically an extention of the original ISA bus
with the controller logic (typical WD1003-style registers) on the
drive.

  It's completely insane that it has proliferated to the point that it
has.

    -Dave McGuire