Serial Attached SCSI

[tmcquaig]

AIX and power5 doesn't support SAS does it? I don't see any documentation saying one way or the other so I am assuming no support.

Interested in some SAS LTO4 Drives.

 

[moon-buddy]

Haven't heard about SAS LTO4. Even Fiber-based LTO4 are relatively new. I guess there isn't any support for SAS LTO4.

 

[heada]

AIX does support SAS, but I don't know about SAS LTO4

-Aaron

 

[tmcquaig]

I got confirmation from my business partner that AIX does not currently support SAS.


edit: using a pseries box. iseries running aix does support sas.

 

[heada]

Have them explain this:

http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/subscriptions/pqvcmjd?mode=18&ID=3946

As well as these fixes:

devices.common.IBM.sissas.rte.5.3.0.3
devices.sas.diag.5.3.0.3
devices.sas.rte.5.3.0.0

-Aaron

 

[tmcquaig]

On pseries. Sorry.


pSeries boxes do not support SAS currently. AIX on iSeries does support SAS.

 

[heada]

I'll bet 99% that it'd work under pseries AIX (mostly because the difference between an iseries Power5 and a pseries Power5 is just firmware and $$$)

I actually downloaded the fixes under the AIX support site and it didn't prompt for hardware type.

-Aaron

 

[tmcquaig]

That's quite possible. I would need the SAS HBA's though. I think we are going to just go FC.