From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stan Hoeppner Subject: Re: Low cost PCI-E unRAID - Supermicro AOC-SASLP-MV8 Driver/LBA questions for HW owners/users Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:00:09 -0600 Message-ID: <4D3F2BC9.8060904@hardwarefreak.com> References: <4D3F16B0.5070506@harddata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4D3F16B0.5070506@harddata.com> Sender: linux-raid-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Maurice Hilarius Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-raid.ids Maurice Hilarius put forth on 1/25/2011 12:30 PM: > On 1/24/2011 3:06 PM, Leslie Rhorer wrote: >>> .. >>>>> If you connect 6GB drives and interfaces to it, you see a lot of >>> errors. > Of course I was speaking of 6GB/Sec SAS2 drives.. Capital "B" stands for BYTES. Small "b" stands for bits. You stated 6 GigaBYTES/sec when you meant to say 6 gigabits/sec. Always use a BIG B when stating parallel bus data rates. Always use small b when stating serial interconnect data rates. SAS and SATA are serial interconnect technologies. You've formed a bad habit which may be difficult to break. Nonetheless, you must break this habit if you want those reading your text to correctly understand what you're saying. -- Stan