Difference between IDE and SCSI ??

[John Summerfield]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 03 Feb 2008 13:54:26 +1030
> Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 11:57 -0800, Les wrote:
>>> SCSI is a serial system, or at least it can be.
>> Pardon?  Usually, when one has a data bus for several parallel data
>> lines at once, one refers to it as parallel.
>>
>> Serial - one data line, that sends bits sequentially.
>> Parallel - several data lines, that send bits simultaneously.
> 
> Of course its never that simple. Most "serial" busses are actually
> multiple wires which send information in parallel..

More likely
txdata
rxdata
Maybe a pair for the other direction (eg RS0232C)
Ground

For a modern cable that has fair throughput, view your ethernet cable:
http://www.ertyu.org/steven_nikkel/ethernetcables.html







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