The only area of concern I've seen w/ sata shelves is that firmware upgrades on the AT-FCX mods is disruptive.  The disruption is well documented and just needs to be planned when conducting an upgrade.

On 5/20/07, Michael Barrow <michael@michaelbarrow.name > wrote:

On May 18, 2007, at 7:00 PM, Wilkinson, Brent wrote:

> Not sure but I believe you do not want to mix fc and sata loops.
> Could be wrong though.
>

There is no issue with SATA in a cluster. You are correct that FC and
SATA drives need to be on their own loops.


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