Actually, in the motherboard pictures I see 6 SATA ports (blue/black/red) and 8 SAS ports (white/gray), and the AIDA64 output shows 6 SATA ports, as expected. It says the LSI 1068 chip is an 8-port chip, so 8 SAS ports would make sense.
Tim On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) <shadowhun...@gmail.com> wrote: > In some cases, the SATA ports in these configurations will report as being > attached to the motherboard chipset. You'll see 4 SATA ports, and 4 SAS > ports. I don't remember off the top of my head how they report in all > cases. > > " 'With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the > first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all > irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and > warning... The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we’re all > damaged." - Jean-Luc Picard, quoting Judge Aaron Satie, Star Trek: TNG > episode "The Drumhead" > - Alex Smith > - Huntsville, Alabama metropolitan area USA > > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Timothy Coalson <tsc...@mst.edu> wrote: > > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 5:32 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> > wrote: > > > > > "Alex Smith (K4RNT)" <shadowhun...@gmail.com> writes: > > > > > > > SATA disks can run on a SAS controller no problem - they are > backwards > > > > compatible, however SAS disks will NOT work on a SATA only > controller. > > > > > > > > The blue colored SATA socket is port 0, probably for the boot > volume. I > > > > can't see from the angle of the photo, but I bet the white colored > > > sockets > > > > are for SAS. Are there any SFF-8087 connectors on the mainboard, by > > > chance? > > > > > > Googling SFF-8087 I find more than one shape of plug, so, not sure > > > what they look like. Are those just the plugs used to connect SATA > > > discs? The bigger of the 2 plugs required for each sata hdd. If so, > > > there are 1 each on all discs now connected (4) and several free on the > > > electrical harness. > > > > > > No, those are SATA power connectors, SFF-8087 is an internal data > connector > > for 4 channels of SAS: > > > > http://www.cs-electronics.com/images-large/Fem%20SFF-8087-b.JPG > > > > This shows both plug and receptacle, the bit on the circuit board is the > > receptacle, and is usually on a larger card/board, not with a cable > coming > > out the back. > > > > However, I believe your board has only one SAS chip, and the 8 ports on > it > > are connected to the sata-like connectors, with only color coding telling > > them apart, so I don't expect it to have any SFF-8087 ports. > > > > > With the LSI HBA, if it requires it, just make each individual disk a > > RAID > > > > 0 volume. That's how I did it with MegaRAID. > > > > > > Err, you left me in the ditch a ways back. Are you saying if I have > > > to do something with LSI HBA and I set discs to RAID 0, then oi will > > > just see non-raid discs and I can just set things up as if each disc > > > was not raided? Also, is the setting you mention done in OI? > > > > > > > From the info from AIDA64, I would guess that you don't need to worry > about > > configuring the card for RAID 0, the storage controller says "3000 > series", > > which from some brief perusal of lsi's site, suggests that it is the > > HBA-configured version of the SAS chip, rather than the RAID-configured > > version. You'd need to look through a manual or the SAS bios to make > sure, > > though, as AIDA64 may not actually try to distinguish them. > > > > More terminology - HBA means it just shows the OS the disks directly, > while > > the RAID version can't do that, and instead puts a layer of virtual raid > > devices between the OS and the drives - ZFS works better on raw disks > > because then you don't have special RAID labeling on the disks (so you > can > > move them to a system without a RAID card), and because ZFS itself can do > > RAID-like redundancy with better integrity guarantees. The way to get > > around the second part of that, if you only have a RAID-style adapter, is > > to make a separate RAID-0 device (no redundancy) for each disk, making it > > close to pass-through for each disk. > > > > > > > Can we start a little further back please: Is there something on this > > > machines hardware that will give me problems in setting up mirrored > > > whole disks for vpools once OI is installed? > > > > > > > If you can run OI at all, with more than one disk attached, there should > be > > no problems making a mirrored zpool, that is software, not hardware. The > > main question is how many disks (and of what size, as was mentioned, the > > SAS ports will only support up to 2TB drives due to the older generation > > SAS chip) you can attach with that hardware. You could also acquire an > HBA > > card with a more up to date chip in it for more/larger disks (assuming > you > > can fit them in the chassis). > > > > > > > I am posting a very detailed report on the hardware and software using > > > the current (windows 7) OS and a tool called Aida64 that pulls all > > > relevant info. It generates a 2+ mb html file but I can post it on my > > > web pages so not to overload this message. > > > > > > It also includes certain performance tests and lots of other junk. > > > > > > Some of the hawkeyes here will no doubt be able to make some sense of > > > it. > > > > > > If anyone is willing to look thru that lengthy report... I guess I'll > > > post it now. > > > > > > zeus.jtan.com/~reader/vu1/Aida64_rpt-140718.html > > > > > > Something slightly worrisome - AIDA64 only finds 4 of the 8 SAS ports. I > > don't know if this means anything, I haven't worked with a similar > system. > > > > > > > > > > (Absolutely piles of information). > > > > > > Further, if anyone is interested enough, I've posted some more images > > > that are stepped back compared to the first two. Stepped back far > enough > > > to see the whole motherboard. > > > > > > I had poor lighting and so the flash glare makes them a little hard to > > > see, but I find if I blow up the image in whatever viewer I'm > > > using... the flash glare becomes negligible > > > > > > Even without any special handling the images are fairly decent. > > > > > > Maybe some of you will recognize what all is going on in there. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > 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
