Called Dell. The official response is that on the SAS controllers mixing SATA and SAS isn't supported. It will work with the PERC controllers but isn't recommended.
So i have to image the data off and replace the drives, then image the data back on. Hmmmm From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: 28 August 2009 09:45 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell SAS controllers SATA and SAS use different command sets, which is why I don't think you can mix/match. From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Friday, 28 August 2009 4:33 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell SAS controllers Pooo. I thought that it would work but you wouldnt get the speed benefits until both disks were sas. Hmmmm From: Ken Schaefer [mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com] Sent: 28 August 2009 09:25 To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Dell SAS controllers I believe you can only have SATA or SAS disks attached, not a mix. Cheers Ken From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:oliver.marsh...@g2support.com] Sent: Friday, 28 August 2009 4:05 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Dell SAS controllers Chaps, Should any Dell HD controller labelled as SAS be able to take SAS or SATA disks? Particularly we have a SAS 5/ir controller that has SATA disks in it and we want to replace them, one at a time, with SAS disks (one at a time so that the raid can resync each time). Anyone know if that should work? Olly ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
