Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:27:03 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SAS controllers and SATA tunneling Message-ID: <4300A637.4030807@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4300A2F8.5050207@samsco.org> References: <43005F30.9000102@freebsd.org> <4300A2F8.5050207@samsco.org>
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Scott Long wrote: > 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. Oops, how does our future look then? Are we going to be restricted to SATA? I'd say in 2006 all new servers will be SAS-only. Old parallel SCSI is dead. -- Andre
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