SATA-ports on X9SCM-F

[dikkiedirk]

Question for all users of ESXi on a Supermicro X9SCM-F board:

 

Are you using the onboard SATA-ports for anything else the datastore? Or do you use them also in an unraid VM or for baremetal unraid.

 

I don't think they can be used in Pasthrough, cause then all 6 ports  need to be in passthrough, which make then unusable for datastore disks.

You can't passthrough only the 4 SATA300 ports, and not the SATA600 ports.

[marcusone]

Can't pass through as you said. It would do all of them including the sata6g as they share the same controller as the 3. But there is a way to pass one drive (bit of a hack) and many do this for the cache drive.

 

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[dikkiedirk]

Can't pass through as you said. It would do all of them including the sata6g as they share the same controller as the 3. But there is a way to pass one drive (bit of a hack) and many do this for the cache drive.

 

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Hi marcus, can you explain this bit of a hack a little further?

[BobPhoenix]

I have one 6GBs port as DataStore.  The 4 3GBs ports are connected to 4 1TB laptop drives in a 1 x 4 cage and using RDM to pass the drives to WHSv1 VM.  I use a single M1015 on passthrough with a SAS expander for unRAID VM.

[marcusone]

Can't pass through as you said. It would do all of them including the sata6g as they share the same controller as the 3. But there is a way to pass one drive (bit of a hack) and many do this for the cache drive.

 

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Hi marcus, can you explain this bit of a hack a little further?

 

in this thred: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=14695.0

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