SCSI to IDE bridges...

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Alexander Schreiber wrote:
> Thre _have_ been people who suggested putting the journal on a ramdisk
> for blazingly fast I/O ... and ISTR that back in the days, one could buy
> extension cards for SUNs that carried some battery backed RAM for a
> similiar purpose (intended for reliably write caching NFS I/O).

Not just Sun.  Those Prestoserve cards were available for a variety of 
architectures.  I have a few for DEC PMAX, at least one for IBM RS/6000, 
and I had heard they were available for HP/9000 machines.

Peace...  Sridhar