Kent Watsen wrote: > Given that manually tracking shifting ids doesn't sound appealing to > me, would using a SATA controller like the AOC-SAT2-MV8 resolve the > issue? Given that I currently only have one LSI HBA - I'd need to get 2 > more for all 24 drives ---or--- I could get 3 of these SATA controllers > plus 6 discrete-to-8087 reverse breakout cables. Going down the > LSI-route would cost about $600 while going down the AOC-SAT2-MV8 would > cost about $400. I understand that the SATA controllers are less > performant, but I'd gladly exchange some performance that I'm likely to > never need to simplify my administrative overhead... > So, I picked up an AOC-SAT2-MV8 off eBay for not too much and then I got a 4xSATA to one SFF-8087 cable to connect it to one one my six backplanes. But, as fortune would have it, the cable I bought has SATA connectors that are physically too big to plug into the AOC-SAT2-MV8 - since the AOC-SAT2-MV8 stacks two SATA connectors on top of each other...
Any chance anyone knows of a 4xSATA to SFF-8087 reverse breakout cable that will plug into the AOC-SAT2-MV8? Alternatively, anyone know how hard it would be to splice the SATA cables that came with the AOC-SAT2-MV8 into the cable I bought? Also, the cable I got actually had 5 cables going into the SFF-8087 - 4 SATA and another that is rectangular and has holes for either 7 or 8 pins (not sure if its for 7 or 8 pins as one of the holes appears a bit different). Any idea what this fifth cable is for? Thanks, Kent _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
