On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Stefan Müller-Wilken < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Peter, > > > You mean HP, not Dell, I presume. > > My bad! You're right, that's obviously HP, not Dell! > > > This is where I get a little confused. Why an extra HBA at all - what's > > wrong with using the SAS ports on the system board? > > > Huh? Do you know the T3-1? I didn't even know there is an option *not* to > use an HBA when connecting 8 SAS drives. Take a look at > https://wikis.oracle.com/display/SystemsComm/SPARC+T3-1+Server . Is there > an on board option at all? > I've got them here. 16-drive variant. There are 2 LSI 2008 embedded controllers on the motherboard. The only HBAs I have in the boxes are for fibre. (You won't see an on-board option, as it's not optional.) -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
