In article <1118307810.345402.269320@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups. com>,
kumar.ramanathan@gmail.com says...
>
>Hello All,
>I had a quick question:
>I was considering the Serial attached scsi cards, that are slowly
>beginning to hit the market now. I had a little doubt, though, if I
>plugged in the SAS card into my machine, would it need any special
>drivers? ( I'm running Linux on my machine). Or would it show up as a
>SCSI sriver, causing the sg to get loaded?
>I'm thinking this should be the case, since the serial and parallel
>only matter at the bus level.
>

like any other device, it'l need a driver (for whatever OS it is)
i reccomend LSI since they seem to be leading the SAS charge
just sold my 1st SAS subsystem last week


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