I have 4 SAS II drives in a Rosewill Hotswap bay.
The backplane has four SATA connections, but the drives are kind of detected by the motherboard SATA ports but only that something is connected, nothing useable. (some sort of Intel S5400 motherboard)
I assume I need to use some sort of a SAS controller, but I don't really know what will be compatible with that configuration.
Do I use a Sideband connector? Is that widely compatible?
I have plenty of PCIe, PCI, and even PCI-X slots for a nice and cheap solution.