I did not doubt that he was correct. I knew that the SAS and SATA shared a common electrical interface but did not know that all SAS controllers would happily control SATA drives. Adaptec do indicate that their SAS controllers will control SATA drives.
James C. McPherson wrote: > Russell Aspinwall wrote: >> One of the SAS controllers has a similar pci reference "pci1000,409" >> to that used by SATA controllers. >> Have all the SAS controllers been tested? > > Russell, > For starters, David (dlg) is correct. > > Secondly, SAS controllers allow SATA devices to > be connected to them, and will quite happily run > and control them to your heart's content. > > > James C. McPherson > -- > Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris > Sun Microsystems > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email > ______________________________________________________________________ > -- Regards Russell Email: russell dot aspinwall at flomerics dot co dot uk Network and Systems Administrator Flomerics Ltd Telephone: 020-8941-8810 x3116 81 Bridge Road Facsimile: 020-8941-8730 Hampton Court Surrey, KT8 9HH United Kingdom _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
