Connecting a External SAS enclosure to a Perc6/E

[Seth Mos]

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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