Re: SCSI-IDE-CF Experiment

[Alex Freed <alex_news@mirrow.com>]

pitz wrote:
> Interestingly, the SCSI-IDE-CF setup seems to boot up slower than my
> external SCSI drive


I don't find this unusual in any way. SCSI protocol is entirely 
different from what CF uses, in IDE mode or otherwise. The
controller has to read a SCSI command, issue an equivalent to CF,
read back the data to a buffer (most likely) and then send the data
back to the SCSI controller. At boot time a real disk will take some
time to spin up, but in most cases the SCSI controller will wait this
time regardless of the presence of a physical disk on the bus.

-Alex.