[rescue] FibreChannel SAS controllers?

[Joshua D. Boyd]

Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:

>Afternoon list,
>
>I've traded or parted out all of my SATA 
>boards...I wanted to stop using high-power PC gear and use 
>PowerPC/POWER/SPARC gear instead at home...and now to access some of my
>
>drives I need a fibrechannel SAS array or similar.
>
>Anyone happen to have one spare they're not using?  I need a way to get
>a 
>lot more drives shoved in to my Sun Fire V480...and my 3TB drives are 
>SATA.
>
>Alternative solutions accepted!

LSI 1068 cards will work in the v480 with sata drives. There is a limit though of 2tb.  Martin Bochnig of opensxce fame has mentioned the existence of a workaround, so maybe someone here knows it as well.