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Kip Macy kmacy at fsmware.com
Tue Oct 10 16:07:33 PDT 2006


The interface is not the same - can one buy an adapter?


On Tue, 10 Oct 2006, Doug Ambrisko wrote:

> Ceri Davies writes:
> | On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 07:29:24AM +0000, John Birrell wrote:
> | > When self-hosting on local disk on the T2000 (with SATA drives) there is a
> | > bug which causes a processor to go off into the weeds. To debug this, kmacy
> | > needs someone to donate another SATA drive. Sun hasn't been responsive to
> | > his request for one. 8-( Can anyone help with that?
> |
> | I didn't think that Sun provided SATA drives for the T2000, only SAS.
> | Do you care about the distinction, or will any 2.5" SATA HDD do?
>
> FWIW, it's been my experience that pretty much any SATA drive will work
> with a SAS controller but not the converse.  I've heard they should
> be SATA II but I'm not sure about that.  All of the drives I've tried
> have worked but I haven't gone through our complete set.  Since SATA
> are easier and cheaper to get I'd go with them.
>
> Doug A.
>


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