John R Pierce wrote: > On 10/7/2015 1:30 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> No. I'm the one who got the quote and set up the order for my managers, >> and I know what it's got: the ethernet connection is to the internal >> webserver to manage the RAID. the 712S I have is dual-path SAS for data. > > then yeah, you'll need a plain SAS2 external HBA card. If your server > is older, with PCI-Express v1 or v2, then a LSI 9211-8e or similar would > be fine (IBM M1015 are a common cheap OE version of the same thing), as > long as you flash that to be in "IT" (Initiator-Target) mode as they > usually come in IR (Integrated Raid). If the server is PCI-Express v3, > then you'll want a newer card based on the LSI 2308 chip, such as the HP > H221 I mentioned) It's an old box, a DL580 G5. And we didn't get the card with the RAID. I suppose I can single path each RAID from the PERC H800, until budgets open up. mark