Adaptec RAID 5805 / 5085

[MasterCATZ]

I have an Retail Adaptec SAS RAID 5805 that supports the ability to power off unused HDD's

I also have an OEM SAS RAID 5085 how ever the Funtion to do so with this card is Disabled and no way to force Adaptecs Bios onto it from what i can tell

the card is Rebadged as an Sun STK Raid EXT

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_D...0&lang=eng


Does any one know of a Solution for this >?

If only it was the other way around it would not have been a problem but I need the External card to support power off functions or else I have 100 HDD's Running 24 /7

will gladly pay for a reasonable solution

[1234s282]

Sorry but i cant help you this one

Hopefully someone will be able to help

Regards
Admin

[Dansolo]

You might want to check the 2CPU forums for this. They're pretty experienced with RAID card stuff.

[MasterCATZ]

thanks for that never heard of them before

I ended up selling that raid card and decided to build an ZFS Raidz system just keeping the 5805 now for windows to use

[Dansolo]

Nice. I'd take RAID-Z over any RAID card any day (if I could spare having to have an OpenSolaris/FreeBSD installation to handle storage, anyway)