[Info-vax] Low power SCSI disk drives

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:
(snip)

>> I sure wish VMS Engineering would support some kind of
>> SAS or SATA drives for Alpha systems.
 
> I'm not going to hold my breath!
 
> The markup on SCSI disks is much higher than for "commodity" 
> drives used in most PCs.

Are there PCI boards (assuming that the systems have PCI) that
have the same software interface as a supported parallel SCSI board?

(As I understand it, it is usual for SATA drives to support SCSI
commands, and that they are often used that way.)

-- glen