Saturday, May 22, 2004

Storage/ PLScsi/ FAQ/

A term that means many too many things, like the term "Java".

When we say SCSI here, we mean:

The popular way of directly attaching storage devices that includes SCSI over IP or TCP/IP (e.g. iSCSI), SCSI over 1394 (aka FireWire aka iLink), SCSI over USB, SCSI over IDE (aka ATAPI, PATAPI, SATAPI), SCSI over LPT (legacy PC printer port), and of course classic parallel SCSI.  Also Linux & Windows include soft bridges from SCSI to ATA (aka PATA, SATA).

2: What's PLScsi?

"Programming Language, SCSI".

That is, the SCSI-over-whatever work of Pat LaVarre & friends, in particular the SCSI command line offered here.

Why such a personal name? For the sake of Google.

3: While learning to use PLScsi, I accidentally smashed my hard drive, can you help?

Probably NOT. Please do backup your hard drives before you run PLScsi, rather than living thru the pain of having PLScsi teach you that you need to backup more often. Often we prepare Windows to recover from a crash with such commercial tools as Ghost and Partition Magic.  Often we back up Mac via Carbon Copy Cloner.

(Posted by Pat LaVarre)