[powerstation-owners] SATA drives on the SAS controller

[Thomas Huth]

Am Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:43:31 +0200
schrieb Adrian Reber <adrian at lisas.de>:

> 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.

Please also note that the drive you want to boot from has to be
smaller than 2 TB. The firmware does not support the new GUID partition
tables, so you're limited by the standard DOS-style partition table.

 Thomas