On Oct 11, 2013, at 10:50 AM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: On Fri, 11 Oct 2013, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote: On Oct 11, 2013, at 3:21 AM, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com<mailto:md.benson at gmail.com>> wrote: On 11 Oct 2013, at 07:47, Daniel Soderstrom <snaggs at mac.com<mailto:snaggs at mac.com>> wrote: I'm not familiar with (S)ATA to SD converters. Such a beast would be fairly complex, similar in difficulty to an ATA to SCSI (SATA to SAS) converter. SAS or SATA or SATA to SAS? SATA can run on SAS easily so I assume you do mean SAS to SATA. Depends on what direction you look. Yes, SAS controllers can talk to SATA disks, with some level of success. (This is actually rather hard and strange bugs show up in this area.) I meant the protocol translation, for example for a SATA controller to talk to a SAS disk. paul