On Oct 20, 2011, at 9:59 AM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: >> SAS is "serial attached SCSI"; it permits multipath connections to devices >> and thus is more similar to fibre channel HBAs than SATA, although some SAS >> controllers will also work with normal SATA drives. > > I know what SAS stands for.
OK. > My question was, what do they mean by *external* controller ? It means the connections to the devices are external, rather than being intended for internal devices: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/global/products/pvaul/topics/en/us/raid_controller?c=us&l=en&cs=555 > Do you get to provide your own ? Devices? Yes. Regards, -- -Chuck _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
