>> We have a SC846E1 at work; it's the 24-disk, 4u version of the 826e1. >> It's working quite nicely as a SATA JBOD enclosure.
> use the LSI SAS 3442e which also gives you an external SAS port. I'm confused, I though expanders only worked with SAS disk, and SATA disks took an entire SAS port. could someone post an output showing more than 4 SATA drives across one InfiniBand cable (4 SAS ports) 2 % cfgadm | grep sata sata1/0::dsk/c9t0d0 cd/dvd connected configured ok sata1/1::dsk/c9t1d0 disk connected configured ok sata1/2::dsk/c9t2d0 disk connected configured ok sata1/3 sata-port empty unconfigured ok sata1/4::dsk/c9t4d0 disk connected configured ok sata1/5 sata-port empty unconfigured ok sata2/0::dsk/c7t0d0 disk connected configured ok sata2/1::dsk/c7t1d0 disk connected configured ok sata2/2::dsk/c7t2d0 disk connected configured ok sata2/3 sata-port empty unconfigured ok sata2/4::dsk/c7t4d0 disk connected configured ok sata2/5::dsk/c7t5d0 disk connected configured ok sata2/6 sata-port empty unconfigured ok sata2/7 sata-port empty unconfigured ok sata3/0::dsk/c8t0d0 disk connected configured ok sata3/1::dsk/c8t1d0 disk connected configured ok sata3/2::dsk/c8t2d0 disk connected configured ok sata3/3 sata-port empty unconfigured ok sata3/4::dsk/c8t4d0 disk connected configured ok sata3/5::dsk/c8t5d0 disk connected configured ok sata3/6 sata-port empty unconfigured ok sata3/7 sata-port empty unconfigured ok _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
