On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 16:28, netbsd wrote:
> Florent Parent wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > -- On Tuesday, March 01, 2005 09:15:47 +0000, Matthias Scheler wrote:
> >
> >> In article <4215BBD7.7070204@purk.ee>,
> >>     netbsd <argo@purk.ee> writes:
> >>
> >>> Rock solid Intel SRCS14L ( RAID 1 ~50MB/sec)
> >>>
> >>> icp0 at pci3 dev 1 function 0: Intel Storage RAID controller
> >>> icp0: interrupting at ioapic2 pin 0 (irq 10)
> >>> icp0: model <SRCS14L>, firmware <Firmware>, 2 channel(s), 64MB memory
> >>> icpsp0 at icp0 unit 100: physical SCSI channel 0
> >>> scsibus0 at icpsp0: 16 targets, 8 luns per target
> >>> icpsp1 at icp0 unit 101: physical SCSI channel 1
> >>> scsibus1 at icpsp1: 16 targets, 8 luns per target
> >>> ld0 at icp0 unit 0: <PD_A000>, type: RAID-1, status: optimal
> >>> ld0: 111 GB, 14588 cyl, 255 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 234366720
> >>> sectors
> >>
> >>
> >> But that's SCSI not Serial ATA?
> >
> >
> >> From Intel site, SRCS14L is a SATA raid card:
> >
> > <http://www.intel.com/design/servers/buildingblocks/srcs14l/> Don't 
> > know why it shows up as SCSI.
> >
> > Maybe <argo@purk.ee> can confirm it really is SATA?
> >
> > Florent
> >
> >
> Yes, this is Serial ATA!

There are a number of cards available these days from various vendors
that implement IDE or SATA at a physical level, but at the
register/programmer's model level are designed to look like SCSI.  A lot
of the Highpoint cards work this way, for example.

R.