[powerstation-owners] SATA drives on the SAS controller

[Adrian Reber]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 05:49:01PM +0000, Adam Conrad wrote:
> Not sure if anyone's still reading this list.  I have an old PowerStation
> that I used in it's original shipping configuarion for years for Ubuntu
> PowerPC porting, but I'm finally looking at messing with that original
> setup.
> 
> I know that some (most?) SAS controllers can handle SATA drives being
> used instead, but I also know this isn't a universal truth, and was hoping
> someone on the list had already experimented with such configuations
> with the PowerStation so they can tell me in advance if it will or won't
> be a terrible idea. :P

In theory you are correct, but unfortunately the firmware on the SAS
controller does not know how to handle SATA drives. The best solution
would be to plug in a SATA controller and connect the drives there. You
still need a SAS drive on the original controller to boot from.

		Adrian