FYI solaris 10 works great but I really need dedup. Going to go crazy and try to copy the kernel drivers from solaris 10 over to b151 and see what happens. Saw a great article stating that expanders were not supported in solaris 11.. so i wonder how they work the j series and HBA cards that are only 8 ports..
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Andy Lubel <alu...@gmail.com> wrote: > So yeah an expander aka backplane in play here. What next? I really don't > want to abandon the effort to hopefully use the best distribution available > for our needs. > > On Nov 18, 2011, at 16:22, "Jason J. W. Williams" < > jasonjwwilli...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > If you've only got 2 ports on the LSI card for 12 drives, then an > expander > > has to be in play. > > > > -J > > > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Andy Lubel <alu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> I'm betting there is an expander, it looks fancy and some enclosure > device > >> shows up in the lsi firmware as well as cfgadm output.. Its also dual > >> ported (and I have tried unplugging one cable with no different > behavior). > >> I may or may not be able to test these drives in another system.. let me > >> try some shuffling and I will report my findings. I knew this R510 was > >> going to be a challenge, but I didn't think for the backplane.. > >> > >> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Jason J. W. Williams < > >> jasonjwwilli...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Andy Lubel <alu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >>> > >>>> IT firmware didn't work, same issue. I am really leaning towards some > >>> sort > >>>> of enclosure problem (backplane) - any ideas how to troubleshoot that? > >>>> > >>> > >>> Do the 2TB 2.5" drives work in other systems? Have you tried other > drives > >>> you might have lying around to narrow it down to just the 2TB drives? > Are > >>> there SAS expanders in the backplane? > >>> > >>> -J > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > >>> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > >>> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > >> OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > >> http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
