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Title: SAS black boxes (SMIB?), anyone? Post by: lutcho on May 18, 2010, 09:19:06 AM Hi there!
I've seen people talking about some 'black boxes' that are used to connect SAS terminals over ethernet. Does anyone knows what they actually do? Are they just "serial over ethernet" converters or do they implement SAS on the 'serial side' and uses another protocol on the 'ethernet side'?? Thanks, Lutcho Title: Re: SAS black boxes (SMIB?), anyone? Post by: TZtech on May 23, 2010, 10:38:32 AM Hello Lutcho
Welcome to NLG. The closest I have seen to this http://www.agaslots.com/sas_client.html but it talks RS485 not ethernet. Then there are also full systems that talk via etehernet like this one - http://www.sip.co.at/. It uses distributed computing so no servers required. If you have acess to the SAS protocol you could probably implement it on any of the programmable ethernet to serial convertors on the market like www.tibbo.com What exactly do you need to do ? Ian |