Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:48:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:48:26 -0500 Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com ([192.108.102.143]:17757 "EHLO smtp-send.myrealbox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 17:48:14 -0500 From: "Pedro M. Rodrigues" To: Alan Cox , Pavel Machek Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 23:47:38 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: IDE and hot-swap disk caddies CC: Pavel Machek , Andre Hedrick , Wakko Warner , Linux Kernel Mailing List Message-ID: <3CA25A1A.31572.2DCF314@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20020327222900.GO19837@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.01) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org You can. Acard for instance makes devices for that. They plug at the end of an ide cdrom or harddisk, and interface with scsi. They have two models, a 20MB/s one, and an UltraWide model that goes up to 40MB/s. It has a small risc cpu and you can even upgrade their firmware. A friend of mine ordered one to plug a dvd reader in an external scsi box he had lying around - he had all his computer drive bays used. He said it worked fine and didn't notice any performance hit even when playing dvd's. /Pedro On 27 Mar 2002 at 23:29, Pavel Machek wrote: > I have seen USB mass storage devices with ide connector on them, so it > is certainly possible to translate between scsi and ide. If it makes > sense from performance standpoint.... I don't know. > Pavel > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/