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Subject: RE: I request inclusion of SAS Transport Layer and AIC-94xx into 
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Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 18:28:33 -0600
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On Tuesday, September 27, 2005 4:51 PM, Luben Tuikov wrote:

> Christoph's code is
>  * MPT based only,
>  * doesn't follow a spec to save its life,
>  * far inferior in SAS capabilities and SAS representation
>    again, due to the fact that it is MPT based.
> 
> Since the whole point of MPT is to _hide_ the transport.
> 


Hi Luben,

OK, Man are you alright?

I've heard of other vendors planning to 
provide solutions where sas is implemented
in firmware, similar to MPT.  Christophs
sas layer is going to work with other 
solutions, don't think of it being 
MPT centric.


Later,
Eric Moore