[OmniOS-discuss] [discuss] mpt_sas wedge

[Garrett D'Amore]

That's right... direct connection *with nothing else on the bus* should be
fine.


On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Paul B. Henson <henson at acm.org> wrote:

> > From: Garrett D'Amore [mailto:garrett at damore.org]
> > Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 3:10 PM
> >
> > This *looks* like its SAS drives, but can you confirm that you're using
> SAS
> > disks and not SATA drives in an expander or converter?
>
> I intended to mention in the original message that this was a WD red 3TB
> SATA drive, perhaps I forgot. So it is a SATA drive, but there are no
> expanders involved, it is connected directly to a single port on the SAS
> hba. I was aware of potential issues with SATA drives and SAS expanders,
> and
> made sure to avoid such a configuration, but my understanding was that a
> SATA disk attached directly to a SAS hba shouldn't be a problem.
>
>
>
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