On Friday 06 January 2006 19:49, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Peter Arremann <loony at loonybin.org> wrote: > > SAF-TE is the furthest in that direction but also not even > > close... > > Ok - so you're referring so saf-te with your above statemts > > or is there more? > > Well, SAF-TE is pretty anal-level, and it's more about > enclosure and other details. I'd have to fully research > _what_ is exactly required -- at the SCSI card (probably not > much), at the SCSI backplane (probably not much) and at the > SCSI driver (there's the majority of the beef ;-). Most manufacturers I'm familiar with are using std. LSI, adaptec, whatever chips on the controller side. Drives are standard and I've just never seen ICs mounted on a internal backplane that had even close to enough pins to be attached to the scsi bus... many external enclosures support saf-te but saf-te does not provide you the level of information you were talking about. The point about failing devices/disconnects is specifically mentioned as not being a responsibility of saf-te. > Now, case-in-point/back-to-original-focus: Sorry - I should have marked that as off topic. It had nothing to do with my 3ware/ata question :-) I was simply wondering what exactly I missed... Peter.