Use SATA cable on SAS Tape Drive

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first of all i'm sorry for my english.

I've an HBA similar to this with a SATAx4 adapter. 3 of those connectors are in Hard Disks drives, and the other is in a Quantum LTO-4 SAS Drive. That drive is damaged and I've bought a new HP drive with SAS too, but this new drive uses a different conector

Then my question is: Can i cut the right side of the SATA cable and connect to new drive?. Both drives are SAS 3Gbps and the new drive has the same power cable as old drive too (besides SAS power cable).

Daniel Carrasco Marín

Posted 2015-01-30T16:25:16.100

Reputation: 31

1something isnt right. you should not be able to use a SAS drive on a SATA controller. But you claim your old Quantum is SAS... What is the exact model number for the SATA controller? – Keltari – 2015-01-30T16:46:20.173

The HBA have a SAS1068E chipset, and is like this: http://www.pc-pitstop.com/images/sas3442e_r_large.jpg

and the quantum drive is this: http://www.quantum.com/serviceandsupport/softwareanddocumentationdownloads/lto-4hh/index.aspx

It uses a SATA cable, but interface is SAS (I can't use that drive in a normal SATA PC).

– Daniel Carrasco Marín – 2015-01-30T17:09:52.510

Answers

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Finally I've cutted the right side and is working fine:

http://s24.postimg.org/dd3t25vz9/DSC_0061.jpg

http://s24.postimg.org/obf2kckkl/DSC_0062.jpg

It don't have redundancy but is OK.

Greetings!!.

Daniel Carrasco Marín

Posted 2015-01-30T16:25:16.100

Reputation: 31

you are a brave man – Keltari – 2015-02-02T15:50:58.290

1Not so brave, I was thinking a long time and reading a lot of info about both ports, and how I was sure that both (controller and drive) are SAS then the most can happen is that drive will not work with that HBA. The only difference between SATA and SAS connector is plastic in the middle of SAS with a secondary connection (redundancy). – Daniel Carrasco Marín – 2015-02-03T08:14:54.583

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