Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Feb 2000 16:35:08 -0800 | From | Karen Shaeffer <> | Subject | Re: Scheduled Transfer Protocol on Linux |
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 01:37:32PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > Karen again: > : > Bottom line: Larry's idea can be implemented today (and it already is > : > implemented in the Cobalt NasRaq, for example). > : > > : > Erik > : ---end quoted text--- > : > : Larry's idea is not currently in the marketplace. > : > : <quote from Larry McVoy> > : One thing that I've dreamed about for a while is getting the disk drive > : vendors to put STP down in the drives. Then we throw out the SCSI/IDE > : cables and use RJ45 connectors to talk to both the network and the disks. > : Think hot plug. Cool, no? > : </quote> > > Well, duh. If it were in the market place, I wouldn't be dreaming about it, > now would I? I'd be a sorry assed "visionary" if my visions included things > which was already shipping. ---end quoted text---
Indeed!
Two years ago, in Q1-98, I submitted a proposal at Seagate to develop disk drives with a wireless network interface. I developed the idea to the point of suggesting a solution utilizing the unlicensed 2.4GHz ISM band. This solution would have implemented a spread spectrum wireless link. At these frequencies, we could have attained the necessary bandwidth to make a viable product. (No flames please, I am aware of the Bluetooth consortium, but that standard transmits at data rates that make it useless for mass storage.)
Imagine a wireless disk drive attached to an office ceiling. People come and go and are connected to LAN-centric memory without any cables...
Anyway Larry, we did this __TWO__ years ago. Integrating a network interface into disk drives is not visionary... I realize this is a bit presumptuous of me, but may I suggest you really should dis-engage your ego from your work...
OTOH, your posts are quite entertaining, combining theatre and engineering... Now that is visionary... :) Please don't be offended. We need to be able to laugh at ourselves to make a better world...
Karen -- ---- Karen Shaeffer Neuralscape; (831) 426-8547 Santa Cruz, Ca. 95060 shaeffer@neuralscape.com http://www.neuralscape.com -------------------------------------------------------
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