[rescue] Various machines for sale

[Dave McGuire]

On January 8, 2025 8:49:52 PM John Francini <francini at mac.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> 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...

  I knew I was forgetting one!  I always found iSCSI a bit odd, and perhaps overdesigned, but yes, it's absolutely SCSI too.

                  -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA