RE: Question regarding SAS controllers.

[Justin Piszcz]

On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Moore, Eric wrote:

> On Saturday, November 22, 2008 2:47 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote:
>
> > Do any SAS controllers exist that are not RAID?
> >
> > Or to put it another way, if one wants to use SAS disks for
> > example and
> > NOT export them as JBOD or use them as RAID, is there a
> > normal controller?
> >
> > Back in the days of regular SCSI you had SCSI controllers and
> > SCSI raid
> > controllers, when searching for SAS controllers now, all that
> > comes up is
> > hundreds of SAS-Raid controllers.
>
> mptsas
>
> http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/host_bus_adapters/sas_hbas/index.html
>
> Eric Moore

Eric,

Thanks, I had checked this out earlier but the only non-raid SAS HBAs 
(those HBAs that do not end in -R) that are JBOD seem to be external only
(e.g., do not contain any internal SAS ports?)

Justin.
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