Category talk:MSCP Disk Drives

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So it turns out that MSCP is a fairly high-level protocol, which runs across several different lower-level hardware interfaces; I found out that the LESI lower-level bus was one that uses MSCP. It turns out that a major one is the Standard Drive Bus, which the RA81 (among many others) uses. I think we ought to have sub-categories of Category:MSCP Disk Drives for each physical bus, as I have done with Category:LESI Disk Drives, and move individual drive articles into the appropriate sub-category (e.g. Category:SDB Disk Drives). So, two questions. i) Is there a good reason not to do this? ii) Are there any physical layers used with NSCP other than LSI and SDB? Jnc (talk) 13:01, 30 August 2023 (CEST)

The RDxx drives are another sub-category of the MSCP main class, but I do not know the name DEC used for the physical layer - maybe we could use "MFM"?
Another (related) thought: Aren't "SDI" and "SDB" two names for the same thing? All RAxx disks are SDI and I think they're SDB, too. To me SDI is much more common than SDB so I'd prefer SDI, but I wouldn't have any serious objections to SDB either. Vaxorcist (talk) 19:30, 30 August 2023 (CEST)