Tracy R Reed wrote:
Mark Wolfe wrote:
Yes, SATA drives show up as scsi.
Why?
Because on the software side SATA drives are more like SCSI than IDE.
Think of the IDE CDROM drivers ide-scsi that we've had for a very long
time. The command set for IDE drives isn't really all that different
from SCSI, and SATA even adds things like Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
to allow the drive to reorder commands to optimize reads/writes. For the
people that write the drivers it was easier to make the drive look like
SCSI than IDE.
Gus
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