I don't claim to understand all the nitty gritty details but there seems to be
a difference between the supermicro motherboard integrated 1068E controllers
and the HBA based controllers in that when I had a machine built with a
motherboard based controller it wouldn't properly talk to/work with
>
> > 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.
> We'll probably be
> buying another in the coming year to have more
> capacity.
> Good to hear. What HBA(s) are you using against it?
>
I've got one too and it