> Then they decided to do come up with the successors to SCSI and PATA and
> decided that serial would be better than parallel.  SAS would be the
> successor to SCSI in terms of being the expensive, fast, and reliable
> hardware, and SATA would be the successor to PATA in terms of being
> cheap.
> 
> If I understand correctly, SAS is just SCSI over a low-level serial
> connection.  SATA is basically a dumbed-down SAS.  SATA uses a
> restricted SCSI command-set, which means that SATA electronics are

This reminds me that a SAS Controller can drive a SATA drive. Not sure if it
is in all cases, but BYU has some machines that have this configuration.

Robert

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