Alexander Lesle <gro...@tierarzt-mueller.de> writes: > Hello Harry, > > when you want to connect SATA drives it is recommend to use only > 4 drives per SFF8087-SAS-connector and not more. When you use SAS > drives you can use up to 256 HDDs but you need the corresponding > hardware like backplane or/and expander.
[...] Timothy Coalson <tsc...@mst.edu> writes: [...] > Note, the 9207-8i does not have to be reflashed (is already a plain HBA, > while the 9211-8i comes configured for RAID) and is otherwise basically the > same thing (also note the 9211-4i also comes configured for RAID, but they > don't seem to make a 4-port HBA configured version). While I'm at it, > there is also a 16-port HBA (9201-16i), if you want to get really crazy > with number of ports, but I suspect your current constraint will be room in > the case for drives. All right... you guys really came thru. Thanks for all the details, pointers and warnings about gotchas. This really helps _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
