On Friday 06 January 2006 19:18, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Peter Arremann <loony at 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.