[rescue] Various machines for sale

[John Francini]

> On Jan 8, 2025, at 16:34, Dave McGuire via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> 
> On 1/8/25 14:56, Mouse via rescue wrote:
>> As a technical geek, I prefer SCSI too.  I'm sad at how close to dead
>> it appears to be.
>  Nah, SCSI is doing fine.  There have been many transports for SCSI, beyond parallel:
> 
>  - SAS
>  - USB
>  - FireWire
>  - FibreChannel
>  - SSA (IBM)
> 
>  It needn't be a parallel interface on a 50-pin IDC connector to be "SCSI".
> 
>  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.
> 
>                -Dave
> 
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
> 

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...

John Francini
Nashua, NH