Hi, The Chenbro chassis contains everything - the motherboard/CPU, and the disks. As far as I know the chenbro backplanes are basically electrical jumpers that the LSI cards shouldn't be aware of. They pass through the SATA signals directly from SFF-8087 cables to the disks.
Thanks, Chad On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 01:43:06PM +1000, James C. McPherson wrote: > Chad Cantwell wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Replied to your previous general query already, but in summary, they are in > >the > >server chassis. It's a Chenbro 16 hotswap bay case. It has 4 mini > >backplanes > >that each connect via an SFF-8087 cable (1m) to my LSI cards (2 cables / 8 > >drives > >per card). > > Hi Chad, > thanks for the followup. Just to confirm - you've got this > Chenbro chassis connected to the actual server chassis (where > the cpu is), or do you have the cpu inside the Chenbro chassis? > > > thankyou, > James > -- > Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris > Sun Microsystems > http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
