On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 11:09:09AM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Aug 2011, Dan Ritter wrote: > > >On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 10:05:55AM -0400, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > >>>From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- > >>>[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dan Ritter > >>> > >>>This is bizarre. SATA and SAS use the same cabling, > >> > >>Sometimes true, sometimes not. > >>I have a Sun server X4275 which has a mixture of SATA and SAS drives in it. > >>No problem. > >>Later I bought an Oracle server X4270 (yes, the later model has a lower > >>number, go figure.) It has only SAS drives, and the connector is different. > > > >Can you describe the connector? And is it on the drives, or on a > >backplane? > > In my case the socket on the drive has a bit of plastic that > prevents an ordinary SATA cable from plugging in. The drives are > Seagates. It does look to me like a cable connector could be > constructed that would work in both types of drives, but none of the > various SATA cables I have are so constructed.
Oh, OK. Yes, SAS controllers can talk to SAS or SATA drives, but SAS drives have a block so that only SAS controllers can talk to them. Sorry for the confusion. -dsr- -- http://tao.merseine.nu/~dsr/eula.html is hereby incorporated by reference. You can't fight for freedom by taking away rights. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
