[geeks] ATA vs. SCSI

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: "Dr. Robert Pasken" <rpasken at eas.slu.edu>
>Date: 2007/06/05 Tue AM 11:03:04 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] ATA vs. SCSI

>On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 02:37, Mark wrote:
>
>> Erm... I just plug SATA drives into my Mac Pro and they work... using  
>> a Backplane... Same with SAS disks. If you are having issues with  
>> SATA you really need to get something looked at (I mean the computer  
>> not ya heed :) ).
>> 
>> -- 
>> Mark Benson
>> 
>
>You mean like trying to add a 250gb SATA to a Sun Ultra-20. You'd think
>that just plugging in like I did with the fiber channel drive on my
>Blade 2000 would make it work. I'm still trying to determine why the
>system doesn't make it past the POST.

Worked on my U20 - I suspect hardware problems on either the drive or the MB, but you've probably ruled that out already...

Lionel