On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 6:29 PM, M J Poff
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On 24/04/2008, at 7:21 AM, Peter Schwenk wrote:
On Apr 23, 2008, at 3:07 PM, Mike Visconti wrote:
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 9:55 AM, John Slaughter <
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You are correct, the Sonnet cards do report SATA and SATA II drives to the system as SCSI devices. I have the tow-port Tempo SATA E2P which works great on my Mac Pro. Wish I had got the E4P 4-port version though.
I don't understand your reference to a "matching card" though. Why wouldn't they be usable? They appear to work just fine here.
-John
Wouldn't that be true only if the drive was in a RAID? If the drive is just a drive plugged into a SATA interface, moving it to another SATA interface wouldn't matter.
I'd like to be able to make backups (bootable ideally) that could be moved to another machine without needing to take the server apart (or purchase additional cards). Also, the Firmtek cards work just fine in the Mac Pros, but don't appear in an Xserve.
The Sonnet E2P does not work in an Intel Xserve either, even though SonnetTech have twice confirmed that it does. The card I have, does work in a MacPro.
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We have tried the Sonnet, Firmtek and Granite Digital eSATA adapters in Intel Xserves, none of them even show up in System Profiler. Even though those cards work on the Mac Pro they just aren't compatible with the Intel Xserve.
As far as we can tell the only external eSATA solution that works with Intel Xserves are the Highpoint RocketRAID cards. If anyone else has had luck with other adapters we'd love to hear it.
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