SAS LTO - HBA Support for SAS Tape Drives

Asset ID:	1-71-1020986.1
Update Date:	2012-05-23
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Solution Type Technical Instruction Sure

Solution 1020986.1 : SAS LTO - HBA Support for SAS Tape Drives

Applies to:

HP LTO4 Tape Drive - Version Not Applicable and later
HP LTO5 Tape Drive - Version Not Applicable and later
Sun StorageTek SL24 Tape Autoloader - Version Not Applicable and later
HP LTO3 Tape Drive - Version Not Applicable and later
Sun StorageTek SL48 Tape Library - Version Not Applicable and later
All Platforms
Checked for relevance on 23-Jan-2012.

Goal

Tape Support for SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) drives.
We support SAS with the SL24, SL48, 1U rack mount unit. These are all HP LTO3, LTO4 and LTO5 SAS drives.
We support SAS with the SL500. These are all HP LTO5 SAS drive.

Fix

The following provides SAS HBA support information:

SAS tape drives are supported on the:
SAS-1 Pandora (PCI-Express) HBA (SG-XPCIE8SAS-E-Z)
SAS-1 Mimas (PCI-Express Module) HBA (SG-XPCIE8SAS-EB-Z)
SAS-2 Erie (PCI-Express) HBA (SGX-SAS6-EXT-Z)
SAS-2 Erie (PCI-Express Module) HBA (SGX-SAS6-EM-Z).

Caveates:

SAS-1 Pandora and Mimas HBAs work with Windows, Linux and Solaris 10 (Exception - EMC Networker does not work on Solaris).
SAS-2 Erie HBA works with Windows and Linux, does not work with Solaris. (Exception - the Erie HBA works with Solaris utilities (tar, cpio so on) it does not currently work with backup applications).

Miminum Solaris required is Solaris 10 Update 10 (08/11).

SAS tape drives are not supported on SAS-Raid HBAs.
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The following provides SAS HBA support information:
No SAS tape drives are supported on SAS-Raid HBAs. They need the Pandora SAS HBA.

Currently SAS is only supported on the HBA Pandora(codename) HBA p/n 375-3487.
https://support.us.oracle.com/handbook_internal/Devices/SCSI/SCSI_PCIE_SAS_SATA_HBA.html

Mimas (codename) p/n 375-3486
https://support.us.oracle.com/handbook_internal/Devices/SCSI/SCSI_PCIE_8Port_SAS_HBA.html

Erie (codename) p/n 375-3641 (External)
https://support.us.oracle.com/handbook_internal/Devices/SCSI/SCSI_8Port_6Gbps_SAS2_HBA_LSI.html

We do NOT support tape on the following SAS HBA's

Cougar (codename) p/n 375-3536
https://support.us.oracle.com/handbook_internal/Devices/SCSI/SCSI_PCIE_8Port_SAS_RAID.html

Prometheus (codename) p/n 375-3537
https://support.us.oracle.com/handbook_internal/Devices/SCSI/SCSI_PCIE_8Port_SAS_RAID_Ext.html

@Provided by Stephen Baldassare and Ryan Lucas.

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