[geeks] POWER System SAS controllers?

[Cory Smelosky]

On Mon, 1 Jul 2013, Andrew Jones wrote:

>
> On 07/01/2013 05:19 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
>> Morning all,
>>
>> I'm looking for a SAS controller for my POWER system, (9110-510) so I
>> can use my 3TB SATA drives and shut down my Sun Fire V480 for the
>> summer...it just uses too much power at the same time aircon needs to run.
>>
>> However, I'm having trouble finding one that works with AIX. My
>> SAS3080X-HP does not, and the IBM-recommended cards are $300-$1500. I'd
>> rather not pay that much to access 2 drives on a system I got for a
>> trade of stuff I wasn't using...
>>
>> Anyone know of an AIX 6.1-supported card or have one they'd part with
>> for free, cheap, or a trade?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> Just out of curiousity, does the LSI card work under Linux/PPC64 ?
>

I haven't tested it.

> (I know those things have an elaborate x86 firmware initialization
> process, but I don't think it's actually necessary.)

It works on SPARC.

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