Connecting a External SAS enclosure to a Perc6/E

[Seth Mos]

Hi,

Thanks for the help all.

Indeed the SAS 5/E HBA works without issues with the Infortrend A24S SAS 
raid cabinet.

Kind regards,

Seth

Nick_Parrott at dell.com schreef:
> Hi Seth,
> 
> The Dell SAS5/E is an LSI 1068 chipset, as is your recommended LSI
> SAS3801E;
> 
> http://www.lsi.com/documentation/storage/hbas/sas/lsisas3801e_pb.pdf
> 
> So fingers crossed it does the trick, apologies, didn't check the spec
> on the A24S-R2130 before responding before..
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Seth Mos [mailto:seth.mos at xs4all.nl] 
> Sent: 24 September 2008 11:02
> To: Parrott, Nick
> Cc: linux-poweredge-Lists
> Subject: Re: Connecting a External SAS enclosure to a Perc6/E
> 
> Nick_Parrott at dell.com schreef:
>> Hi Seth,
>>
>> I'd be tempted to think that because these disks aren't validated by
>> Dell (not sure of the spec, but it's unlikely) that the PERC won't
>> display them or allow you to use them. There are lists of these disks
> if
>> you want them, I can dig them out, but they are all listed under the
>> MD1000/3000 docs.
> 
> The Infortrend A24S is a SAS attached SATA disk raid array. The 
> Infortrend is a entire raid box with dual controllers and disk cache and
> 
> BBU units.
> 
> So I've ordered 2 SAS5E HBA adapters with our account manager, expecting
> 
> that a straight through SAS adapter will probably work a lot better.
> 
> Infortrend does list a LSI Logic PCIe SAS controller in the HCL for the 
> Infortrend so I suspect this might work a lot better.
> SAS HBA: LSI SAS3801E PCI-Ex8
> 
> I am not sure if this is the same controller as the SAS 5E but I am 
> expecting it to be similar.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestions and the help!
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Seth
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com
>> [mailto:linux-poweredge-bounces at dell.com] On Behalf Of Seth Mos
>> Sent: 23 September 2008 12:00
>> To: linux-poweredge-Lists
>> Subject: Connecting a External SAS enclosure to a Perc6/E
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am trying to connect a PowerEdge R805 with a Perc6/E add in board to
> a
>> Infortrend A24S-R2130 SAS array.
>>
>> The link lights on the Perc6/E on the rear come on as well as on the 
>> Rear of the Infortrend unit.
>>
>> I have created a LUN on the Infortrend A24S which is exported via 
>> channel0 on the rear which is connected to channel0 on the Perc6/E.
>>
>> When I enter the Ctrl-R menu on the Perc6/E I see no unconfigured
> disks.
>> When I got the PD Mgmt page in the Ctrl-R bios I see only the
> following 
>> entry:
>>
>> Drive	ID	Vendor	Size	Type	State	DG
>> --:--:	17	IFT	0	SAS	Failed	
>>
>> On the right of this in the info box it correctly displays the Product
> 
>> ID A24S-R2130, revision 361B, Write Cache N/A, Smart Status No error, 
>> Operation None.
>>
>> Can anyone explain what is going wrong here?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Seth Mos
>>
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