Messages in this thread |  | | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: The advantage of modules? | Date | Mon, 8 Jan 2001 22:14:25 +0000 (GMT) |
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Dan Hollis writes: > On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Russell King wrote: > > I don't believe that is what it's trying to say. There have been instances > > in the past where unplugging a SCSI device from a powered on SCSI bus can > > result in blown terminator power fuses and the like. Whether this still > > applies today, I don't know (are active terminators better or worse than > > passive when it comes to this type of thing?) > > The term SCSI is depreciated as purely a physical layer. We talk SCSI over > many different physical layers (1394, usb, ata). Of course many of these > support hot plug natively.
And can you please explain how I can attach this USB Zip drive to this 50-wire SCSI bus please? Or would you prefer me to call it a bus? Something with 4 wheels maybe? Maybe we should depreciate the term "bus" as well just to remove that confusion. ;)
Seriously though, you can't depreciate a term for referring to a type of bus without providing some other term to describe said bus. _____ |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+- | | Russell King rmk@arm.linux.org.uk --- --- | | | | http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html / / | | +-+-+ --- -+- / | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\ / | | | --- | +-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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