[geeks] New 2.5" SCSI HDs???

[Phil Brutsche]

Mike Meredith wrote:
>> You cannot, for example, plug a SCSI disk into a SAS system, nor the
> 
> Not without a converter at least, but there do exist SATA->SCSI (eh?
> can I call it P(arallel) A(ttached) S(csi) ?) converters.

Those converters won't work, you can't use SATA controllers with SAS
drives. SAS drives expect some signalling SATA controllers don't
provide, and those SATA <-> SCSI converters are no different.

BTW they call old-fashioned SCSI SPI (SCSI Parallel Interface)

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Phil Brutsche
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