April 29, 20233 yr So I've been searching around I'm not 100% sure of the answer. If you have a hard drive enclosure full of SATA drives that has a Mini-SAS HD backplane, and (using a reverse breakout cable) you connect it to SATA ports that have a JMB585 or ASM1166 controller, will this work? I assume not, and that the motherboard has to to have a built in SAS controller on its SATA ports for this to actually work? That or have to get a SAS HBA.
April 30, 20233 yr 16 hours ago, twin_suns said: and (using a reverse breakout cable) you connect it to SATA ports that have a JMB585 or ASM1166 controller, will this work? Assuming there's a SAS expander it won't work, it will work for direct connect backplanes, without an expander, i.e., that have a separate connection for each drive.
May 1, 20233 yr Author No expander, just a single breakout cable from the motherboard's SATA ports to a SAS connector on a backplane. So it sounds like it will actually work, thanks.
May 1, 20233 yr I meant a SAS expander included with the backplane, if the backplane has fewer connections as the number of disks it supports it includes a SAS expander.
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