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Are the issues with SATA over SAS expanders that prevalent? I haven't had any issues with SATA over SAS on my LSI controller. On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Sašo Kiselkov <[email protected]>wrote: > On 08/24/2012 06:15 PM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > > On 8/24/2012 12:08 PM, Rich wrote: > >> You know, you'd think so. > >> > >> There's lots of opinions on SAS expanders, and the general consensus > >> seems to be "if you can avoid the complication, doso". > >> > > The only complaints I've heard are putting SATA drives on SAS > > expanders. Even that is not very clear - lots of he said/she said > > stories out there... > > I would generally tend to agree with the "no SATA on SAS expanders" > sentiment, especially given that expanders are relatively dumb devices > and so expecting them to play nicely in any kind of heavy-weight > protocol translation is sort-of playing with fire. However, I've yet to > see a problem with SAS-on-SAS expanders, especially considering that > this allows you to easily grow storage and utilize dual-porting natively > built into all SAS drives (not to speak of high-order SAS topologies, > such as with LSI's SAS switches). > > Cheers, > -- > Saso > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > -- Seconds to the drop, but it seems like hours. http://www.openmedia.ca https://robbiecrash.me _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
