SATA and SAS together.

[fatdog302]

Hello,


I have a ML350 with a E200i controller that which seems to me to have 8 ports for SAS drives and i have a SATA backup device that i want to plug into it but I cant for the life of me find a SATA port on the controller or anywhere else for that matter. Does anyone have an idea, maybe i need to have a SATA cable with a SAS backplane? If so are there any power issues that i need to consider?

Any insight would be appreciated.

 

[PaulGillespie]

Don't install a tape drive on a raid card, not sure if the E200i is one.

SAS and SATA use the same connectors so using a standard sata cable should be fine. If you have no sata ports left, but an add in sata card.

 

[TheLad]

According to the technical specs, the HP Smart Array E200 controller sypports SAS and SATA drives and supports disks only as well (don't know about the E200i). There is only a SAS connector on the card so maybe you would need a SAS to SATA cable?

http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/...artarraye200/index.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN

But I do agree with Paul, even if you did have the correct cable I would not mix disks and tape drives - this goes for all Smart Array cards.

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