SATA-ports on X9SCM-F

Question for all users of ESXi on a Supermicro X9SCM-F board:

Are you using the onboard SATA-ports for anything else the datastore? Or do you use them also in an unraid VM or for baremetal unraid.

I don't think they can be used in Pasthrough, cause then all 6 ports  need to be in passthrough, which make then unusable for datastore disks.

You can't passthrough only the 4 SATA300 ports, and not the SATA600 ports.

Can't pass through as you said. It would do all of them including the sata6g as they share the same controller as the 3. But there is a way to pass one drive (bit of a hack) and many do this for the cache drive.

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Can't pass through as you said. It would do all of them including the sata6g as they share the same controller as the 3. But there is a way to pass one drive (bit of a hack) and many do this for the cache drive.

 

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Hi marcus, can you explain this bit of a hack a little further?

I have one 6GBs port as DataStore.  The 4 3GBs ports are connected to 4 1TB laptop drives in a 1 x 4 cage and using RDM to pass the drives to WHSv1 VM.  I use a single M1015 on passthrough with a SAS expander for unRAID VM.

Can't pass through as you said. It would do all of them including the sata6g as they share the same controller as the 3. But there is a way to pass one drive (bit of a hack) and many do this for the cache drive.

 

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Hi marcus, can you explain this bit of a hack a little further?

in this thred: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=14695.0

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