Possible: Configure SAS Sun Jbod J4200 ?

[Mike Pumford]

Denny Schierz wrote:
> hi,
>
> we have a Sun Jbod SAS J4200 and actually there is a running daemon
> under Solaris 10, which is needed, to configure the JBOD over a
> (badly) Java Sun  tool from a other host machine (Windows XP, for
> example). If I switch from Solaris to FreeBSD, I don't know, if I can
> view the status and configure from/over FBSD…
>
> The Jbod is only connected through the SAS channel, nothing more. :-/
> It means, it doest' have any Network/serial access …
>
Does it appear as an SES device? If it does you might be able to do some 
basic status and control operation using sg3_utils. There isn't a 
guarantee of this as quite a lot of enclosures provide their more 
serious control operations through vendor specific requests and channels.

Mike

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