[rescue] IDE SSDs? I never knew...

[Dave McGuire]

   Do you mean the EMC Orion at LSSM?  That was EMC's first mass storage 
product.  Its host connection is parallel channel. (multiple)

            -Dave

On 6/30/24 12:57, Patrick Giagnocavo via rescue wrote:
> I think there was even a late-1980s "SSD in all but name" that could be connected to an ESCON channel for IBM mainframes.
> 
> Pretty sure I saw one in a museum, somewhere :-)
> 
> That would also classify as "mass storage" but was not based on spinning Fe2O3.
> 
> --Patrick
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave McGuire via rescue" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Cc: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
> Sent: Sunday, June 30, 2024 9:44:09 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
> Subject: Re: [rescue] IDE SSDs? I never knew...
> 
> 
>     That's exactly what I would think, if there were ever any implication
> about a SCSI mass storage device being a hard disk drive, but there
> hasn't.  It was always (by far) the most common implementation, but it
> was never a requirement that anything be rotating, and there were
> other-than-HDD SCSI mass storage devices since the beginning of SCSI.
> 
>                 -Dave
> 
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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