[geeks] In which 3Ware can bite me

[Joshua Boyd]

On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 04:51:04PM -0400, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> On Mar 9, 2009, at 4:26 PM, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Phil Stracchino <alaric at metrocast.net> 
>> wrote:
>>> I suppose another alternative is to throw away the 9500 and stuff in
>>> several smaller Solaris10-supported SATA JBOD cards.
>>
>> you'd probably want 2 cards anyway depending on how you set up your
>> redundancy.
>>
>>> The machine has
>>> two PCI-X slots (one of which currently holds the 9500) and two
>>> available PCI32 slots.
>>
>> Are these 133MHz, 64 bits? That can translate into 1GB/s with an 8
>> port LSI card. Put 2 and mirror card A drives to card B.
>>
>> That's what I have. I only paid $41 total for both LSI 8 port PCI-X
>> sas cards including shipping and 2 cables that go from 1 sas wide to 4
>> sata. They were brand new pulls. New in box they can be found for
>> about $80 each with shipping, perhaps a little less. These work on
>> sparc and x86 solaris 10.
>
> I'd be interested in a model number for that LSI SAS controller (PCI-X, 8 
> port, supported under Solaris) - that could come in handy, and I think 
> outhers might be interested too.

The internal one is the LSISAS3080X.  The external one is the
LSISAS3800X.  There is also a 4 internal 4 external port card out there,
the LSISAS3442X.