Re: Serial ATA: SCSI Replacement?

From: daytripper <day_trippr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:30:26 -0400

On 12 Sep 2006 18:25:25 -0700, "PeteCresswell" <GoogleGroups@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

SCSI seems to have gone away for home users... and I donated all my old
SCSI cables, cards, and a drive or two to the trash a couple weeks ago.

But it raised a question for me.

Seems like one of SCSI's claims to fame was unloading the work of disc
access from the CPU to the SCSI controller.

Given that SCSI is then and Serial ATA is now; does Serial ATA fulfill
that function?

Not yet. But SAS does, now...

/daytripper
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References:
- Serial ATA: SCSI Replacement?
  - From: PeteCresswell

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