[OpenIndiana-discuss] SATA Expansion cards

[Andrew Gabriel]

Jerry Kemp wrote:
> I thought that SATA expansion cards were always bad news when used 
> with Solaris, and Solaris based distro's.

He was really asking for SATA host bus adapters.

> There are tons of horror stories out there, primarily thru the ZFS 
> mailing list.

The bad news comes with using SATA drives via SAS expanders, i.e. it's 
not a good idea to use SATA drives in SAS JBODs. (A SATA drive directly 
connected to a host bus SAS port is usually fine however.)

-- 
Andrew