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

[Jonathan Chapman]

> Another is that they don't talk directly to the hardware; they speak
> some other disk interface protocol, such as SATA, out the other side.

Moreover, they are often talking to something FAT32 formatted, and storing the SCSI targets as files. They can also be CD-ROMs, Ethernet adapters, etc.

Compare to an ACARD SCSI to IDE [to SATA] bridge, where you talk to the disk 1:1 w.r.t. blocks. Those are closer to a host interface bridge, IMO. More like a HVD <-> LVD bridge than whatever you want to call the modern iterations.

I think calling something like the BlueSCSI, ZuluSCSI, SCSI2SD, etc. an "emulator" is probably not wrong.

Thanks,
Jonathan