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SAS to SATA?

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haxxorboi

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I have a Norco 2442 and twelve drives on WHS2011. Two are SSD and run normal SATA cables straight to the onboard SB700 (RAID 0). Eight are HDD and run over two SAS 8087 on the backplane to SAS 8087 on both AOC-SASLP-MV8 ports. This leaves me with twelve free drive bays but no other SAS controllers.

I have two 8087 to 4 SATA cables (reverse cable I think they're called, had them before I had the Norco case) but unfortunately I can't get drives in the third backplane row (8087) running to the four remaining onboard SB700 controlled ports.

Is it possible to do what I'm trying to do or will the SAS cables only work with a controller?

Thanks!
 
haxxorboi said:
I have a Norco 2442 and twelve drives on WHS2011. Two are SSD and run normal SATA cables straight to the onboard SB700 (RAID 0). Eight are HDD and run over two SAS 8087 on the backplane to SAS 8087 on both AOC-SASLP-MV8 ports. This leaves me with twelve free drive bays but no other SAS controllers.

I have two 8087 to 4 SATA cables (reverse cable I think they're called, had them before I had the Norco case) but unfortunately I can't get drives in the third backplane row (8087) running to the four remaining onboard SB700 controlled ports.

Is it possible to do what I'm trying to do or will the SAS cables only work with a controller?

Thanks!
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Are you sure the breakout cables you have are indeed reverse and not forward? Also, is your case a 2442 (haven't seen this one) or a 4224?
 
The cables I bought were: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816116099

Should be CBL-SFF8087OCF-10M (wayyyy too much length, for anyone curious in the future that finds this thread. Go with the .5 meter!). So it looks like I have "forward" cables and what I actually need is "reverse" cables... crap...

Sounds like I need to buy a new cable, eh?

Oh, and yep, it's 4224. Derp'd a bit there.
 
Cool! Thanks for the help. I figured it was something stupid like that.

Happy New Year!
 
If you wanna get rid of your FWD Cables :) shoot me a PM! I need some for my IBM M1015 i'm buying
 
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