Re: Scheduled Transfer Protocol on Linux

[Karen Shaeffer]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 01:26:53PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 12:19:06 +0100 (MET), Rogier Wolff wrote:
> > Erik Mouw wrote:
> >> > i saw something (I think it was on ace's hardware site) over the weekend
> >> > indicating there was a new chipset for gigE running ~$100 ea, combine that
> >> > with a crusoe cp: (~$50) and some ram (say 16M for $30) you won't meet the
> >> > +$100 that larry is wanting, but you could probably get +$250 for a box
> > 
> > I can do +$500 NOW. There are "mini PC" boxes for that price. 
> 
> Bottom line: Larry's idea can be implemented today (and it already is
> implemented in the Cobalt NasRaq, for example).
> 
> Erik
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Larry's idea is not currently in the marketplace.

<quote from Larry McVoy>
One thing that I've dreamed about for a while is getting the disk drive 
vendors to put STP down in the drives. Then we throw out the SCSI/IDE 
cables and use RJ45 connectors to talk to both the network and the disks. 
Think hot plug. Cool, no?
</quote>

The genre of products emerging in the market such as Cobalt's NasRaq all
currently use standard disk drive interfaces. These products simply add
value by integrating a system around these disk drive(s), which utilize
the existing industry wide disk drive interface standards. There is no
modification of the actual disk drive interface. 

Karen
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