Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:55:44 -0500 From: "Don Wilde" <dwilde1@gmail.com> To: "Pete French" <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell blade Re: a fun project Message-ID: <eefa2c8b0803301855q1027125cla610623d7245644a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <E1Jg8OZ-0006hy-OQ@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> References: <eefa2c8b0803301542q3a467524m4a4e1e2491e1142b@mail.gmail.com> <E1Jg8OZ-0006hy-OQ@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> wrote: > > The tiny cables are the issue. Even the pcb finger connector on the > drive is > > a quarter of the pitch of, say a PCI connector. Tiny! Yes, the drive > > controller does both, but it's a fabrication issue. Too much time to > make or > > chase down such a cable adapter. > > I can sympathise with you in this one! I recently started using SAS for > the first time, and need a cable to connect a controller (HP P400i) to > a drive. Would have thought that was simple, but in the end I couldn't > find *anyone* in europe who had such a thing! had to special order one > from the states in the end ?! I guess most people using SAS don't connect > drives directly to controllers, but all use some hot-plug chassis or > something. Still, it amazed me how hard it was to find (and how expensive > whe I did find one). > Exactly. Midplanes and risers. Cables are passe' these days. :D
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