[Oberon] SATA vs. SAS

[shark at gulfnet.sd64.bc.ca]

At Sun Nov 13 23:57:22 2005 Thomas Frey mentioned, 
> ... work going on for a new SATA driver ...

According to Wikipedia, a SAS controller can 
support a SATA drive but a SATA controller 
can not support a SAS drive.  If this is true,
software support of SAS rather than SATA would 
be closer to the Aos/ETH/Oberon principle of 
generality.

Regards,     ... Peter E.



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