[geeks] POWER System SAS controllers?

[Andrew Jones]

On 07/01/2013 05:19 AM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
> Morning all,
>
> I'm looking for a SAS controller for my POWER system, (9110-510) so I
> can use my 3TB SATA drives and shut down my Sun Fire V480 for the
> summer...it just uses too much power at the same time aircon needs to run.
>
> However, I'm having trouble finding one that works with AIX. My
> SAS3080X-HP does not, and the IBM-recommended cards are $300-$1500. I'd
> rather not pay that much to access 2 drives on a system I got for a
> trade of stuff I wasn't using...
>
> Anyone know of an AIX 6.1-supported card or have one they'd part with
> for free, cheap, or a trade?
>
> Thanks!
>

Just out of curiousity, does the LSI card work under Linux/PPC64 ?

(I know those things have an elaborate x86 firmware initialization 
process, but I don't think it's actually necessary.)