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Hi Hale, Not quite, it is all the folks with lame software like Legato, Veritas, et al which is totally dependent on SCSI command sets. Instead of fixing their boat anchors, they found a way to poison the hardware. It is also a way for the drive makers to make ATA a two tier product since SCSI is a dying work horse. Cheers, Andre Hedrick LAD Storage Consulting Group On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Hale Landis wrote: > This message is from the T13 list server. > > > On Fri, 26 Apr 2002 12:26:14 -0600, Pat LaVarre wrote: > >This message is from the T13 list server. > >Ouch. "Scsi over Ide" now might mean Atapi or this other thing now. Ouch. > > I think you figured it out Pat! Yes, it sure looks like the Serial > ATA folks are trying to define yet another "SCSI like" interface, > much the same thing that the original ATAPI developers tried to do. > And we all know how much trouble that has caused for everyone. I sure > hope we don't go down that path again. If we do I would expect yet > another 12+ month effort by T13 to figure out and document how a > entirely new set of command protocols operate. > > > > *** Hale Landis *** www.ata-atapi.com *** > > >
