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Re: scsi-ide



Hi,

I don't know about your specific problem, but I know about SCSI:

1. SCSI disks are formatted completely different than IDE disks (they have
their own version of LBA and don't use DOS-like C/H/S notation - tha adapter
BIOS does that if necessary)

2. SCSI disks support a completely different set of options (write-cache,
LUNs, spin-up at boot, etc) which can be accessed via standard commands.

3. I don't think there is any point to uses SCSI-commands on IDE disks (if
someone knows, please tell me)

4. SCSI is much better than IDE
Schlomo
-----Original Message-----
From: Erez Doron <erez@savan.com>
To: linux-il@linux.org.il <linux-il@linux.org.il>
Date: Monday, December 01, 1997 12:41
Subject: scsi-ide


>Hi
>
>I've just compiled the new kernel 2.0.32
>in addition to the patch for the pentium FO OF bug,
>it has some more new things.
>
>one of them is an ide-scsi device
>that means that i can acess an ide device, with
>utilities that works only on scsi.
>
>I havan't got any experiance on scsi devices, so
>i didn't managed to figure up how do i use th ide-scsi.
>
>I looked up the faqs but didn't find any thing
>
>i do not know how to tell it which ide i want to acess as scsi
>and i have some more questions on that
>
>does anybody has the answers for this or can point me
>to a place i could find the answers ?
>
>thanks
>Erez.
>
>
>