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Date:      Tue, 10 Oct 2006 16:07:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Kip Macy <kmacy@fsmware.com>
To:        Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Kip Macy <kmacy@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>, John Birrell <jb@what-creek.com>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf Makefile.sun4v files.sun4v options.sun4v src/sys/sun4v/compile .cvsignore src/sys/sun4v/conf DEFAULTS GENERIC GENERIC.hints MAC Makefile NOTES src/sys/sun4v/include _bus.h
Message-ID:  <20061010160707.Q27309@demos.bsdclusters.com>
In-Reply-To: <200610102301.k9AN1jW2018170@ambrisko.com>
References:  <200610102301.k9AN1jW2018170@ambrisko.com>

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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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