Interposer Pro 1.9.9 Serial Number
Avery Blaschko
hello, the topic is very old, but i hope someone still reads it. I was also very confused with this whole sata sas interposer thing. First i read on some forum that interposer can make sata look like sas to the system, therefore allowing SAS + SATA in RAID1 on the same virtual drive. WRONG!!! there is no way that could ever work. Then i read that the interposers are mandatory for the SATA drives to work on perc5i controler. WRONG again!!! SATA drives work with 2 different caddys without any interposer. So... interposers are no use for poweredge 2900 - 2950 what so ever! they are a waste of time. the only thing is... SATA are like 20x times slower then SAS drives.
thank you for your quick reply. but in my case the rpm are the same, so that leaves the other feathures that the sas has extra. how reliable are SATA on a hosting server ? talking about speed and functionality... ??
If you look at the matrix on the Intel doc, many of the features affect reliability too ... error recovery and other SAS settings that SATA drives do not have. Another thing that addresses reliability is Dell's warranty ... SATA drives, unless you purchase an extended warranty to cover SATA, is only 1 year, where the SAS drives are covered for the term of the server's warranty, up to 5 years.
Yes like that. MD3000 and greater. MD1000 and greater. EMC Storage etc. These systems have 2 contollers for redundancy and also other things like load balancing. A SAS disk can connect to both controllers but only 1 is active. If a contoller fails the disk will use the other connection(port) to continue working. A SATA disk is single port so can only physically connect to one controller. If that controller fails then the disk will go offline. The Interposer contains logic(chips) that turn the single port into dual port so it will function like a SAS disk. The interposer does other stuff as well not sure what though. On EMC arrays it fools the bus into thinking the disk has a 4gb interface not 3gb.
If you are planning to connect the ADC3643EVM to a Xilinx EVM, then you will not need the interposer board, and can connect the ADC3643EVM FMC directly to the Xilinx platform. This interposer board is used to connect to TI's TSW1400EVM FPGA data capture card (translates ADC3643 CMOS data to LVDS).
Thanks for your reply. I didn't mention an important issue. The Xilinx EVM is KCU105, which has two FMC connectors, one FMC HPC and one FMC LPC. In my case, the FMC HPC connector is already in use, so I need to connect the ADC3643EVM to FMC LPC. That's why I was considering to use the interposer board, plus FMC-ADC_ADAPTER board.
Looking at the KCU105 schematic for the LPC, it doesn't look like the pin columns E and F are not routed to any FPGA pins, so it will not be able to be natively connected directly to the ADC3643EVM (HPC connector will work).
Yes, I think this will work (at least as far as pin mapping from the ADC3643EVM to Interposer to FMC-ADC-ADAPTER to LPC of KCU105), especially since we are shifting to LVDS so the parasitic capacitance of all the boards shouldn't be a big issue.
I also believe there should not be any issue with Male/Female connectors. In terms of the geometry of all the cards/PCBs fitting together without a catastrophic collision, I think this should also be ok, but you may want to double check that there is enough clearance for the KCU105 and no critical connectors are being blocked.
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