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Subject: Re: SAS controllers and SATA tunneling
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Andre Oppermann wrote:
> Does one of our SCSI-SAS controllers support multiplexors and
> SATA tunneling (STP)?
> 

No.  Adding a SAS module to the MPT driver is probably the easiest 
option by far.  SAS chips from Adaptec, Intel, Vitesse, and others
likely do not have a FreeBSD driver nor the available documentation to 
write a FreeBSD driver.

Scott