I don't know why everything always gets so confrontational, I bought it I can certainly complain. Every piece of literature I've read, promotional or otherwise, LSI refers to the 9260/9260DE as SATA+SAS.

From the 9260 pdf:

"MegaRAID® SATA+SAS 9260-8i / MegaRAID SAS 9260DE-8i Eight-Port 6Gb/s PCI Express SATA and SAS RAID Controller"

"Support for 3Gb/s and 6Gb/s SATA and SAS hard drives"