SCSI, ATA Groups Build Serial Compatibility
Hard drives and direct-attached storage cabling are notoriously tedious to install, but two industry groups are now working together to simplify that.
Next year, the SCSI Trade Association - which evolved from an earlier working group developing the serial-attached Small Computer System Interface - and the Serial ATA Working Group, which works on the replacement for the older parallel Advanced Technology Architecture, hope to complete a serial port specification that is compatible with both technologies, said LSI Logic Corp.'s Harry Mason, president of the SCSI group.
"When we created the vision for serial-attached SCSI, we wanted to leverage the physical work that had gone on in the Serial ATA group. Philosophically there was some agreement, but there were some legal and technical issues about the ability to share information," he said, at the Server I/O conference this week in Monterey, Calif.
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