12 Aug
2012
12 Aug
'12
6 p.m.
On 08/12/2012 08:44 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
Actually I have.
Absolutely.
There are several other notable foibles of that
industry...the very existence of (IBM's proprietary) SSA and SAS, which
are both completely pointless in the face of FibreChannel...they are all
just different physical layers for SCSI.
You haven't been paying much attention to SAS recently, then. They actually
did something intelligent and made the interconnect common between SAS
and SATA.
Yep. Your statement seemed to suggest that this is in conflict with
my assertion above. Perhaps I misinterpreted it.
The file servers I spec'ed for the CHM digital
repository are all SAS
backplanes
with SATA drives in them. If you dig around for the few pictures of the
current
Internet Archive servers, this is exactly what they did as well.
Nice work!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA