-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoCDpoACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VSTgCfR367giBE2yzfBT52l/zJ83Ht A08An110pWveYmwDCOvy60Hu3bFjyvl5 =WstE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org