On 04/14/19 15:25, John Long wrote:
On Sun, 14 Apr 2019 14:53:34 -0400
gwes <g...@oat.com> wrote:
On 2019-04-11, John Long <codeb...@inbox.lv> wrote:
I have a Dell server that was advertised to support 4x3.5 +
2x2.5 drives but when I popped it open I found there are only
4 SATA ports on the motherboard total. So of the 6 claimed
drives, I can actually only install 3 drives because the stock
DVD drive consumes a mobo port.
Yeah T30 PowerEdge. The local shop has the card Dell
recommended, but I'm not sure I trust them since it's unlikely
Dell tests anything but a thousand variants of Windows and
*maybe* RedHat.
/jl
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I'll second the LSI Logic/Avago/Broadcom? SAS/SATA controllers.
They run as many disks as I want at full speed. As previously
mentioned they can be quite inexpensive if you buy one relabelled
as (for instance) an IBM card.
They do need to be flashed to a recent firmware version.
Older firmware versions limit themselves to 32-bit block numbers.
Can I flash one of these cards without installing it in a Windows box?
Because I don't have one ;)
They can be flashed from Linux. I think a USB drive formatted right with the
appropriate files & running Linux from a cd-rom would suffice.
I did something like that.
Geoff Steckel
