On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:37:17 +0000
Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@NetBSD.org> wrote:

> 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:
[snip]
> > >> 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.

Excuse me for offtopic.

Does this mean that with any SATA drive it would gain SCSI advantages,
such as command queueing, low CPU usage, and so on?

--
BR, Mishka.