[OpenIndiana-discuss] paging any HP xw8600 users.. or knowledgeable others

[Harry Putnam]

Alexander Lesle <groups at tierarzt-mueller.de> writes:

> Hello Harry,
>
> when you want to connect SATA drives it is recommend to use only
> 4 drives per SFF8087-SAS-connector and not more. When you use SAS
> drives you can use up to 256 HDDs but you need the corresponding
> hardware like backplane or/and expander.

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Timothy Coalson <tsc5yc at mst.edu> writes:

[...]

> Note, the 9207-8i does not have to be reflashed (is already a plain HBA,
> while the 9211-8i comes configured for RAID) and is otherwise basically the
> same thing (also note the 9211-4i also comes configured for RAID, but they
> don't seem to make a 4-port HBA configured version).  While I'm at it,
> there is also a 16-port HBA (9201-16i), if you want to get really crazy
> with number of ports, but I suspect your current constraint will be room in
> the case for drives.

All right... you guys really came thru.  Thanks for all the details,
pointers and warnings about gotchas.

This really helps