On Wednesday May 6 2009, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Wednesday, 2009-05-06 at 13:47 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
However, whether a drive is connected by SATA, eSATA, USB, FireWire, SCSI, SAS or IDE / ATA, it is still and equally "directly" connected.
Not if there is some other problem.
I guess I don't know what you mean by "direct." In all these cases there is an electrical connection between the device and the computer that conveys power and the control and data signals. What can be more "direct" than that?
I don't consider a disk on USB connected "directly". There is a software conversion from SCSI to USB (usb-storage), then it goes via the USB transport, then a chip does a conversion from USB to PATA or SATA (with a limited subset of the commands). Too many conversions, compared to the HD connected "directly" to the PATA/SATA bus.
By that criterion, the same is true for IDE / ATA drives and ATAPI optical drives, too. Are they not directly connected, either? The problem here is that notions of "directness" are somewhat artificial. It's connected. That's all that really matters.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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