usb disks and sticks mapped to scsi devices.

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akonstam at trinity.edu (Aaron Konstam) writes:
> But am I the only one who thinks it is peculiar that usb disks are mounted as
> scsi devices (or at least as /dev/sdxx)
> 
> How and why was this done?

Because usb and firewire disk devices talk scsi. SBP used with firewire
is really some kind of SCSI tunnel.
Nevertheless a lot of firewire drives use an ide bridge so you end up with
a pretty interesting architecture: an ide drive connected to a bridge which
converts ide commands back and forth to scsi over firewire.
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