Enquiry on SAS in FreeBSD

[Paul Schmehl]

--On January 22, 2007 11:53:58 AM +0800 "Ahmad Faisal M. Nor" 
<ded1 at EPEDAS.COM.MY> wrote:

>
> NOTE: I'm not subscribe to the FreeBSD.org mailing list, please CC to me
> as well
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> We're ordering Dell Poweredge 2950 Server which is come with SAS (Serial
> Attach SCSI). Most newly manufacture branded server comes with SAS
> nowadays, no more SCSI. According to Dell Technical Support, SAS is a
> new technology of SCSI but different architecture. They don't have any
> idea whether it works on FreeBSD or not. I'm worried if it's not work on
> FreeBSD and we cannot return the hardware.
>
> Does anyone here have any idea on these SAS thing ?
>
SAS == Serial Attached *SCSI*

I'm running a 1950 with two 73GB SAS drives, RAID 1, and not having any 
problems.

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/