[rescue] Baby needs new sh... oh, wait.

Phil Stracchino phils at caerllewys.net
Wed Jun 9 21:59:18 CDT 2021


On 6/8/21 2:09 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> On 6/8/21 1:40 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> On 6/8/21 3:02 AM, Peter Corlett wrote:
>>> AFAICT, at least some models have SAS support on at least some ports,
>>> although there might also be a 2TiB drive size limitation due to the SAS
>>> chipset.
>>
>>
>> That is something that had not even occurred to me as a consideration.
>> Unfortunately I do not CURRENTLY have a larger-than-2TB drive to test with.
> 
> I just checked the Sun manual for the X4540 and the specifications do
> strongly imply that no larger than 2TB drives are supported.


Yup ...  meant to follow up on this.  The 4540's array controllers are
LSI SAS1068e, and they are limited to a maximum of 2TB per drive.


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