Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-29 Thread Kevin Ross
On 5/3/2015 3:32 PM, Leslie Rhorer wrote: Does anyone out there have a recommendation for an HBA (preferably non-RAID) that is stable, supports drives larger than 2T, is either supported directly in the Jessie Kernel or has open source drivers, and either has management utilities that either r

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-28 Thread Don Armstrong
On Fri, 22 May 2015, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 3:10:05 PM UTC-5, Don Armstrong wrote: > > I personally am using an LSI SAS2008-based HBA with two HP MSA60 > > enclosures; I then run standard mdraid on top of that: > > And there are ports for the management software in Jessi

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-25 Thread HÃ¥kon Alstadheim
On 23. mai 2015 03:19, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > Oh, you're right, although I had many of the same issues in that area, > as well. That said, I still have not definitively pinpointed the > source of the problems. The LSI controller on the Squeeze system is > working without a hard failure, however. A

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-24 Thread Winfried Boxleitner
hello leslie, On Fri, 22 May 2015, Leslie Rhorer wrote: On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 9:50:06 AM UTC-5, Winfried Boxleitner wrote: I'm using an Adaptec 7805H Hmm. That is SFF-8643. 'Not ideal. I would really rather SFF-8088, or at least SFF-8087, for which I have some adapters. (PCIe)

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-24 Thread Petter Adsen
On Fri, 22 May 2015 18:37:05 -0700 (PDT) Leslie Rhorer wrote: > On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 5:40:05 AM UTC-5, Petter Adsen wrote: > > On Sat, 16 May 2015 05:38:30 -0700 (PDT) > > I am sorry if this is a dumb question, > >Not at all. > > > but if this is a home system, > > why can you not go

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-22 Thread Leslie Rhorer
On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 3:10:05 PM UTC-5, Don Armstrong wrote: > I personally am using an LSI SAS2008-based HBA with two HP MSA60 > enclosures; I then run standard mdraid on top of that: And there are ports for the management software in Jessie? > If you have smaller numbers of drives, the

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-22 Thread Leslie Rhorer
On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 9:50:06 AM UTC-5, Winfried Boxleitner wrote: > I'm using an Adaptec 7805H Hmm. That is SFF-8643. 'Not ideal. I would really rather SFF-8088, or at least SFF-8087, for which I have some adapters. >(PCIe) which is supported by standard kernel > (currently I'm ru

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-22 Thread Leslie Rhorer
On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 5:40:05 AM UTC-5, Petter Adsen wrote: > On Sat, 16 May 2015 05:38:30 -0700 (PDT) > I am sorry if this is a dumb question, Not at all. > but if this is a home system, > why can you not go for more commodity hardware? While I do recognize > there are differences betwee

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-22 Thread Leslie Rhorer
On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 5:40:05 AM UTC-5, Petter Adsen wrote: > >I don't have money to send to Red Hat. First of all, one reason > > (although not the only one, by far) I am using Linux is it is free of > > commercial restraints. Secondly, these are not commercial systems. > > These are a

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-22 Thread Leslie Rhorer
On Monday, May 18, 2015 at 10:00:04 PM UTC-5, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Mon, 18 May 2015, Petter Adsen wrote: > >>Just as an aside, this is a Debian user forum. > >> Frankly, it strikes me as a bit strange to advise > >> someone asking a question concerning an ordinary > >> use of Debian to

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-19 Thread Winfried Boxleitner
On Sun, 3 May 2015, Leslie Rhorer wrote: Ever since upgrading to Debian Jessie, I have been having a heck of a time with getting the RAID array up and keeping it up. I believe it to be a problem with the controllers. I have an identical system still running Squeeze. I can't upgrade it becaus

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-18 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Mon, 18 May 2015, Petter Adsen wrote: On Sat, 16 May 2015 05:38:30 -0700 (PDT) Leslie Rhorer wrote: Just as an aside, this is a Debian user forum. Frankly, it strikes me as a bit strange to advise someone asking a question concerning an ordinary use of Debian to go somewhere else.

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-18 Thread Don Armstrong
On Sun, 03 May 2015, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > Does anyone out there have a recommendation for an HBA (preferably > non-RAID) that is stable, supports drives larger than 2T, is either > supported directly in the Jessie Kernel or has open source drivers, > and either has management utilities that eithe

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-18 Thread Petter Adsen
On Sat, 16 May 2015 05:38:30 -0700 (PDT) Leslie Rhorer wrote: > On Sunday, May 3, 2015 at 10:30:03 PM UTC-5, Bob Bernstein wrote: > > On Sun, 3 May 2015, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > > > > > Many specifically list SuSe and Red Hat, but very > > > few list Debian [...] > > > > And you have your answe

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-16 Thread Leslie Rhorer
On Sunday, May 3, 2015 at 10:30:03 PM UTC-5, Bob Bernstein wrote: > On Sun, 3 May 2015, Leslie Rhorer wrote: > > > Many specifically list SuSe and Red Hat, but very > > few list Debian [...] > > And you have your answer: send money to RH. They used I don't have money to send to Red Hat. Fi

Re: Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-03 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Sun, 3 May 2015, Leslie Rhorer wrote: Many specifically list SuSe and Red Hat, but very few list Debian [...] And you have your answer: send money to RH. They used to be very good at reliably supporting a lot of different hardware. (I'm out of that consulting biz now...for some time now.

Need SAS HBA for Debian Jessie

2015-05-03 Thread Leslie Rhorer
Ever since upgrading to Debian Jessie, I have been having a heck of a time with getting the RAID array up and keeping it up. I believe it to be a problem with the controllers. I have an identical system still running Squeeze. I can't upgrade it because the controller doesn't work under Jessie