Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>
> > Because they are ?
> >
> > They dont provide scsi as the native interface (nor do some of the others
> > but thats a seperate saga)
>
> I know it might seem silly, but as to make things clearer for most
> users/admins, wouldn't it be better to just call them SCSI controllers, as
> they all indeed connect SCSI drives to the host?
They're not SCSI _controllers_. They happen to like scsi drivers, but
there's nothing
scsi about the controller. and admins would expect all controllers from
the
"SCSI Controllers" menu to show up as /dev/sda etc, which these don't.
> ---
> MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA
Maybe this explains it ;)
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