On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:05:06 -0700 (PDT) Etienne Fortin <[email protected]> wrote:
... > I like the fact that the L8i card is PCIe friendly. Are you using it > with SATA drives? I seems to understand that those SAS/SATA card often > work with OpenSolaris but only with SAS drives. No, that's not correct - SAS cards handle SATA drives just fine. > That's why I would > like to confirm you are having it working with SATA drives. Also, I > would like to know on which version of OpenSolaris you are using it. I > have snv_111 right now so I should have the most recent drivers for > just about anything but better to check then have a useless card. If you've got a card based on the LSI1068 chip, it should work just fine with the mpt(7d) driver. > The last thing I would like to understand is how these SAS/SATA card > are working with SATA drives. There is 2 4x ports on the card so there > is probably some specific cable needed to convert these 4x ports to SAS > and/or SATA connectors. That's a fanout cable, SFF 8484. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Attached_SCSI#Connectors > Are they included with the card? Don't know, sorry. > If not, how > do you find the appropriate cables and how much are they (just as a > reference)? I have not played with these card before but... seems that > all manufacturers are moving this way instead of producing new model of > SATA card. I guess it's the smart way to follow. http://www.blackbox.com should have them (they're the only cable vendor I know of, I'm sure there are others). James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog Kernel Conference Australia - http://au.sun.com/sunnews/events/2009/kernel _______________________________________________ storage-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/storage-discuss
