The RAID card does not disable this, however, you can also just attach the SATA disks to the SAS5/iR. Does that not work for your needs? Or do you need more than 4 disks?
Well I was going to use a spare 250Gb PATA drive I have using a PATA to SATA converter to give me extra storage space. Although now that you mention it, I could make use of the 2 spare SATA ports of the RAID card because the old server has a pair of Western Digital RAID Edition hard drives.
Anyway, the main reason I was asking is because I want to use a PATA tape device. I wish to connect it to the onboard SATA using a PATA to SATA adaptor. If not I would buy a PATA PCI card.
What are the drive bays like for adding extra drives? Do they require special Dell drive rails (an old IBM server I have uses stupid metal rails which wobble about)?
raiddude
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March 10th, 2009 08:00
The RAID card does not disable this, however, you can also just attach the SATA disks to the SAS5/iR. Does that not work for your needs? Or do you need more than 4 disks?
atom1c
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March 10th, 2009 08:00
Well I was going to use a spare 250Gb PATA drive I have using a PATA to SATA converter to give me extra storage space. Although now that you mention it, I could make use of the 2 spare SATA ports of the RAID card because the old server has a pair of Western Digital RAID Edition hard drives.
Anyway, the main reason I was asking is because I want to use a PATA tape device. I wish to connect it to the onboard SATA using a PATA to SATA adaptor. If not I would buy a PATA PCI card.
What are the drive bays like for adding extra drives? Do they require special Dell drive rails (an old IBM server I have uses stupid metal rails which wobble about)?