Re: FYI: I2O Architecture (fwd)

James W. Laferriere (babydr@nwrain.net)
Fri, 22 Nov 1996 22:21:46 -0800 (PST)


On Tue, 19 Nov 1996, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Services like RAID are not visible to the host and thus takes the load
> > of providing such services from the host CPU.
> >
> > You can even attach a serial terminal to it.....
>
> Have you written a Linux tty interface for it, or can you only chat to
> the card itself, like you used to be able to plug a vt52 into any board
> on a VAX ?

Heck, you could even do that with the RA series of DEC
disk drives. Hmmm someone outside of DEC, Doing Disk
interface designing....
JimL