From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 13 11:38:52 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41FCB1065680 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:38:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF4688FC08 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:38:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1REJcg-0006sL-HG for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:38:50 +0200 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:38:50 +0200 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:38:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 13:38:31 +0200 Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <4E96BA63.3040001@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigD36B5EE89D375F76C7B33790" X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111004 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: <4E96BA63.3040001@zedat.fu-berlin.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell Poweredge 1950 III (PE_SC3): replacement SAS controller to acceess drives >= 3TB X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:38:52 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigD36B5EE89D375F76C7B33790 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 13/10/2011 12:16, O. Hartmann wrote: >=20 > I'm a bit afraid of buying something "out of the blue" since the > dimensions of this little controller board seems small. I hope someone > already made a decission to buy such a replacement for their similar or= > exact the same system and can help me out. >=20 > We do not need RAID, nor SAS 2.0 capabilities, just JBOD. Thanks a lot > in advance, This is somewhat tangential but if the server has an internal USB port (directly on the motherboard), you *could* use it just for boot+root for the OS and then have buy any kind of controller which supports your drives. Almost all modern servers have this, but the 1950 is a bit old...= In the same direction: if you have the space and the cabling, you could just add a single small drive and connect it to the motherboard SATA controller (non-RAID) and boot from that. --------------enigD36B5EE89D375F76C7B33790 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6WzbcACgkQldnAQVacBcgEYwCeMvrhgglAbVfiTBNcCmTKUdpQ h1YAoKOxF1TwtP35Al8ljQUoMJRBQwrf =+U34 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigD36B5EE89D375F76C7B33790--