SATA drives in SAS slots; sure thing?

I'm looking at putting SATA drives into a Sun box with SAS slots.

In general, this needs "SATA Tunnel Protocol" but I'm not sure it's
always there [required in the SAS spec..] or optional.

Sun, I suspect, would like us to order SAS [aka $A$..] drives. But we can
get far larger SATA drives for the same price, and this app won't care
about the performance hit. Will they work?


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On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 22:49:07 +0000 (UTC), David Lesher <wb8foz@panix.com>
wrote:
>
>I'm looking at putting SATA drives into a Sun box with SAS slots.
>
>In general, this needs "SATA Tunnel Protocol" but I'm not sure it's
>always there [required in the SAS spec..] or optional.
>
>Sun, I suspect, would like us to order SAS [aka $A$..] drives. But we can
>get far larger SATA drives for the same price, and this app won't care
>about the performance hit. Will they work?

Rather than going on plain suspicion, why not ask Sun?

The worst thing that could happen is they'll tell you it won't work - and
you'll still have the same suspicion.
The best thing that could happen is they'll tell you it will work fine...

/daytripper