<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Yes, that sounds right - there were special cards to drive them, as I recall - a lot of the imaging was done on the workstation, not the printer.<div><br></div><div>Thanks to both of you (Mike & mouse) for the correction.</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Ken</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jan 8, 2025, at 23:28, Mike Spooner via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="auto">The SPARCprinter and NeWSprinters from Sun were not SCSI, they used a hacked graphics/video interface and a wierd connector.<br><br>At least, according to the Sun documentation.<br><br>Regards,<br>Mike</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">On 9 January 2025 03:29:04 GMT, Lionel Peterson via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><div dir="auto">SCSI scanners were all the rage in early Mac era as I recall - they used big "centronics" style printer cables.<br><br>Weren't early sun laser printers SCSI?<br><br>NVMe has a much, much greater speed than anything you can hang off a SAS/SCSI connector - PCIe Gen 5, 4 channel devices are on sale at Microcenter today...<br><br>Ken<br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto">On Jan 8, 2025, at 21:11, Joshua Boyd via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org> wrote:<br><br>On 1/8/25 20:56, Dave McGuire via rescue wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto">On January 8, 2025 8:49:52 PM John Francini <francini@mac.com> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #e9b96e; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto">On Jan 8, 2025, at 16:34, Dave McGuire via rescue <rescue@sunhelp.org> wrote:<br>?On 1/8/25 14:56, Mouse via rescue wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ccc; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="auto">As a technical geek, I prefer SCSI too. I'm sad at how close to dead<br>it appears to be.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">Nah, SCSI is doing fine. There have been many transports for SCSI, beyond parallel:<br><br>- SAS<br>- USB<br>- FireWire<br>- FibreChannel<br>- SSA (IBM)<br><br>It needn't be a parallel interface on a 50-pin IDC connector to be "SCSI".<br><br>And make no mistake, it needed to make the transition to serial, regardless of the specific transport mechanism. There were skew problems in parallel SCSI in U320; scaling it past that and avoiding skew while still making cables simple and affordable just wasn't practical.<br></div></blockquote></blockquote><div dir="auto">No love for iSCSI? I worked for 10 years for a company (and later a DELL division): EqualLogic, which made iSCSI arrays that would cluster themselves and serve up data through multiple gig/10gig connections. Wonderful product. Unfortunately iSCSI seems to have been a bit of a fad...<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto">I knew I was forgetting one! I always found iSCSI a bit odd, and perhaps overdesigned, but yes, it's absolutely SCSI too.<br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><br>I feel like I hear more about iSCSI for VMs and netbooting these days than I do FC. People are saying that iSCSI will be replaced with NVMeoF, but I don't know how long that will take.<br><br>For storage servers, I think there is a lot to be said for SAS SSDs over NVMe SSDs, and as such would think it reasonable to stick with iSCSI over NVMeoF.<br><br>Can't say that I've heard much about iSCSI (or SAS) scanners or printers though. ;)<hr>rescue list - <a href="http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org">http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org</a><br></div></blockquote><div dir="auto"><hr>rescue list - <a href="http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org">http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org</a><br></div></pre></blockquote></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>rescue list - http://sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue_sunhelp.org</span><br></div></blockquote></div></body></html>