Yes. I've done it, both with SAS expanders and with normal 4:1 SAS->SATA breakout cables, and gotten > SATA 2 speeds.
(...with SSDs, as it happens, but that would be almost a necessity for exceeding SATA 2 in general. :)) - Rich On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Russ Price <rjp_...@fubegra.net> wrote: > On 08/30/2011 02:39 AM, Mark wrote: >> >> Some sata drives just don't handle the sas-sata emulation combined with >> sas >> expanders. > > Not only that, but I've found that the Seagate ST3500413AS (500 GB SATA > 6Gb/s) won't work on my Intel SASUC8I HBA (basically an LSI SAS3081E-R, > which uses the mpt driver). It'll work just fine on an AHCI port, but > apparently the HBA can't successfully autonegotiate the 3 Gb speed. > > No jumper is available to force 3 Gb operation. If I place a jumper on the > typical Seagate speed limiter location, I get 1.5 Gb operation (but that's > actually undocumented for this specific drive family - the documentation > claims jumpers are unnecessary). I haven't tried the 1.5 Gb mode with the > HBA, though. > > Would a 6 Gb SAS HBA work with 6 Gb SATA drives? > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss