Hi,

I'm curious if anybody is running an eSATA controller in a SPARC box, if
any controller exists at all that is supported...

I have a Blade 2500 with a PCI-X slot which I'd like to use for an eSata
controller. Of course such a device wouldn't be supported by OBP, but
that wouldn't matter to me at all.

I've seen there exists a eSATA controller from Dawicontrol, but I doubt
it is supported by Solaris. LSI seems only to have pretty expensive SAS
controller, which could probably also be used to attach an external
eSATA box... Can it?

There exists a small eSATA box from FANTEC for 2 disks that might be
perfect for backup/additional storage purposes. So I thought I just ask
on the list, if anybody has already made some experiences with eSATA and
SPARC...

Cheers,
Thomas

On Jan 8, 7:28 am, Thomas Maier-Komor <tho...@maier-komor.de> wrote:
>
> I'm curious if anybody is running an eSATA controller in a SPARC box, if
> any controller exists at all that is supported...

Not eSATA just plain old SATA I due to the age of my machine (Blade
2000), or
it would be eSATA capable I do believe. I have an LSI SAS3041X-R

> I have a Blade 2500 with a PCI-X slot which I'd like to use for an eSata
> controller. Of course such a device wouldn't be supported by OBP, but
> that wouldn't matter to me at all.

The first thing I see with ok probe-scsi-all is the LSI...

> I've seen there exists a eSATA controller from Dawicontrol, but I doubt
> it is supported by Solaris. LSI seems only to have pretty expensive SAS
> controller, which could probably also be used to attach an external
> eSATA box... Can it?

I got mine off eBay for a VERY reasonable price

> There exists a small eSATA box from FANTEC for 2 disks that might be
> perfect for backup/additional storage purposes. So I thought I just ask
> on the list, if anybody has already made some experiences with eSATA and
> SPARC...

I bought a 500 GB SATA-2 disk and external encosure for under 160$.
Its all I wanted but LSI makes other models and I assume they would
also be
plug&play mpt driven on Solaris 10.