On Friday 06 January 2006 19:18, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
Peter Arremann loony@loonybin.org wrote:
Hmmm... how is it a different matter? A scsi backplane has very little logic onboard other than what is required for
the
scsi id selection (unless that is hardwired too).
Depends on the backplane. You should see what the Dell, IBM and other servers have. ;->
*nods* Have done so - never when working on anything from HP, sun or IBM I've seen anything like what you're describing... SAF-TE is the furthest in that direction but also not even close...
Now it will be interesting to see if Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) cards, which can use SATA drives, will still report back SATA status via their SCSI-2 facilities. I know some of the SAF-TE standard is adopted in some SATA drives and backplanes.
Ok - so you're referring so saf-te with your above statemts or is there more?
Peter.