On Sun, 2008-02-03 at 21:20 +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > There was also EIDE. > > EIDE, IDE, Fast-ATA and similar names are all essentially marketing names > for the same ATA interface. > > > > in commercial applications. Sun Systems almost exclusively used SCSI > > No - older Sun systems used Xylogics interfaces. > I guess I should have added a date to that statement.... Absolutes will get you every time. My personal experience with Sun dated from about 1990, and the systems I opened up had only SCSI in them. Regards, Les H