Proliant DL360 G4p SCSI with SATA???

[DustMite]

Nevermind, it doesn't look physically possible given the way that the SCSI backplane integrates with the system board.

[Whizzergo]

Sorry to drag this up again, but I've just seen that spare is still available (from brokerage sources) for the SATA backplane for this model. PN: 361389-001

Having checked several of our SCSI DL360 G4p's I can see that the SATA soldering is labelled on the motherboard, but the actualy SATA ports themselves aren't present. It appears that they have never been soldered into place.

Would somebody be able to confirm if this was the case with every SCSI model? Therefore they were simply designed to not be upgradeable? Otherwise it seems that it would be very easy to swap the backplane and turn these machines into SATA servers.

Many Thanks in anticipation.