Re: what can i do whit it ?

[Celt <reply@this.newsgroup>]

In article <tm7986fqd7jg36@corp.supernews.com>, sands@cableone.com 
says...
> What is SASI ?
> I have seen MFM IDE and SCSI
> 
<snip>

According to the SCSI Technical Library of Information 
(http://www.scsilibrary.org/):

"The roots of SCSI go back to 1979, when the disk drive manufacturer 
Shugart was looking for a new universal interface for future disk 
drives. The goal of the effort was to develop an interface that 
supported logical block addressing rather than head/cylinder/sector, 8-
bit parallel data transfer instead of analog serial and generic commands 
rather than a couple of control lines. This interface was called SASI 
(Shugart Associates Systems Interface). The SASI specification included 
some 6-byte commands and a single-ended interface.

"In late 1981, Shugart along with NCR, presented SASI to the ANSI 
committee X3T9.2, which accepted it as a project, now called SCSI. In 
the following development period, many major improvements over SASI have 
been added to the SCSI draft. This includes the ability of devices to 
compete for the bus (arbitrate) and to free the bus 
(disconnect/reselect) temporarily during command execution. Also it was 
now possible to have more than one host adapter on a SCSI bus. By 1984 a 
draft proposal was presented to ANSI for approval. At that time there 
were already many devices on the market that adhered more or less to 
this proposal. In 1986, SCSI was approved by ANSI as document X3.131-
1986. This first official version is today referred to as SCSI-1. SCSI-1 
included 6- and 10-byte commands, the single-ended and differential 
interface options and synchronous and asynchronous data transfer."

Celt