I've opened up my machine. The backplane has 4 mini-SAS connectors. Each of those splits out to 4 separate sata connectors that are connected to the Areca controller. I suddenly remember that I didn't buy the mini-SAS version a few years back ;-)
Everything seems OK connection wise.
I'm...
Thanks for the quick reply. It's a custom build based on a chenbro RM31616 chasis.
I'll have to check the exact cable layout at work tomorrow, but here is an image from the front in it's current state:
(one disk cage is opened: that's because it's faulty and needs to be replaced. That's...
Today, we had a power failure at the office that lasted longer than our UPS'es could handle. And unfortunately I was too late to shut down our SAN server (as in: sick, nobody else at the office, you know how those things work ;))
I'm using a ARC-1260 on 1.49 firmware (latest for that model)...