Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] BAD WD drives - defective by design?

2011-08-29 Thread Rich
The drives are attached to a backplane? Try using 4k sector sizes and see if that improves it - I've seen and been part of a number of discussions which involved this - and you, I think, actually. - Rich On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Hi all > > I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 6 GB SATA drives on SAS HBAs (was: bad WD drives)

2011-08-30 Thread Rich
Yes. I've done it, both with SAS expanders and with normal 4:1 SAS->SATA breakout cables, and gotten > SATA 2 speeds. (...with SSDs, as it happens, but that would be almost a necessity for exceeding SATA 2 in general. :)) - Rich On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Russ Price wrote:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 6 GB SATA drives on SAS HBAs (was: bad WD drives)

2011-08-30 Thread Rich
][2] posts by gdamore regarding SAS expanders misbehaving when drive resets are triggered. - Rich [1] - http://gdamore.blogspot.com/2010/08/why-sas-sata-is-not-such-great-idea.html [2] - http://gdamore.blogspot.com/2010/12/update-on-sata-expanders.html On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Roy Sigurd

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 6 GB SATA drives on SAS HBAs

2011-08-30 Thread Rich
to flash once you'd removed the firmware entirely, I don't have any thoughts. c.f. http://kb.lsi.com/KnowledgebaseArticle16266.aspx - Rich On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Russ Price wrote: > On 08/30/2011 01:40 PM, oi-disc...@mho.nu wrote: >> >> There are different firm

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Mellanox MHQH29C-XTR Infiniband HCA compatibility

2011-09-20 Thread Rich
Since, to my knowledge, all of the Sun^WOracle branded IB HCAs are using Mellanox ICs, I'd be extremely surprised if they were unsupported. - Rich On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:36 PM, Martyn Klassen wrote: > I have been unsuccessfully trying to find compatibility information on the &g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Best way to map SAS drives to physical positions

2011-10-03 Thread Rich
May I ask what kind of SAS HBA you're using? - Rich On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 10:25 AM, James Carlson wrote: > Jeppe Toustrup wrote: >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 16:00, James Carlson wrote: >>> Have you tried "cfgadm -lv"? >> >> Yes, "cfgadm -lv&qu

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Best way to map SAS drives tophysicalpositions

2011-10-03 Thread Rich
But wait, there's more! http://skysrv.pha.jhu.edu/~rercola/SAS2IRCU_10.00.00.00.zip - Rich On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Jeppe Toustrup wrote: > On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 20:55, Russell Hansen wrote: >> I stumbled upon a nice script and link to a utility for just such a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] use zfs_nocacheflush

2011-10-06 Thread Rich
FS client data is on disk and sync'd when it is, in fact, not. Of course, all this is predicated on my initial assumption of what the flag does - please, someone chime in and correct me if I'm full of it. :) - Rich On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:45 AM, Gabriele Bulfon wrote: > Hi, >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OCZ Deneva MLC SSD for ZIL

2011-10-31 Thread Rich
Deneva 2 is based on the Vertex 3, not Vertex 2, as I understand it. Which are you asking about? - Rich On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: > Hi Ivar, > > I understand about the MLC vs. SLC distinction, but MLC is getting > better and I'm more inter

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] the latest usb image

2011-11-03 Thread Rich
To create a live USB on a Unix-like system (including Mac OS X), download the standard live USB and this file [http://dlc.openindiana.org/isos/1G.header] and run the following commands:cat 1G.header | dd bs=1024k of= Quoth the OI wiki. Is that what you're doing? - Rich On Thu, Nov 3, 2011

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3x LSI 9211-8i controllers + direct attach backplane -- appear as on controller

2011-11-16 Thread Rich
That is indeed the expected behavior, speaking as someone with many 92xx controllers in Supermicro machines with mpxio enabled. :) - Rich On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On 11/16/11 12:30, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: >> I just had a new server released to m

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3x LSI 9211-8i controllers + direct attach backplane -- appear as on controller

2011-11-16 Thread Rich
sas2ircu is a useful tool for this. Several people have written or are writing wrappers around it to perform this task. - Rich On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Rich wrote: > >> That is indeed the expected behavior,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3x LSI 9211-8i controllers + direct attach backplane -- appear as on controller

2011-11-17 Thread Rich
sure of your answer? > > The important part to me is that the 000C5002C68468B above is > typically printed on the label of the drive.  Put a little sticker on > your sled with the contained WWN, and you won't make the mistake of > grabbing the wrong drive from the array agai

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 3x LSI 9211-8i controllers + direct attach backplane -- appear as on controller

2011-11-18 Thread Rich
I bet you $50 you can use sas2ircu on the IT firmware, particularly with the locate command. [Don't take the bet; if you do, I'll link you to a private github repo with some code that does it, and my PayPal account.] - Rich On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Jason J. W. Williams w

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell R510 SAS2 Backplane with SAS2008 (PERC H200)

2011-11-22 Thread Rich
Dell Rx10 works fine for me on S11. This is just the drives on the front, not an external MD1200 or similar, right? - Rich On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Andy Lubel wrote: > FYI solaris 10 works great but I really need dedup.  Going to go crazy and > try to copy the kernel driver

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell R510 SAS2 Backplane with SAS2008 (PERC H200)

2011-11-30 Thread Rich
I'm on a Dell R710 and haven't seen any such issues. Then again, I'm using a different controller than you are (PERC 6/i, please don't ask me why). - Rich On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Andy Lubel wrote: > I have a feeling that my culprit here could be the disks: S

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell R510 SAS2 Backplane with SAS2008 (PERC H200)

2011-11-30 Thread Rich
I'm not, the disks are being exposed as a single logical RAID-10. I dunno boss. - Rich On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Andy Lubel wrote: > Yeah, and you are probably exporting each disk as a raid 0, pseudo jbod > with some BBC.. I suppose that's an option for us but it >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell R510 SAS2 Backplane with SAS2008 (PERC H200)

2011-11-30 Thread Rich
for Dell by default, as I know they're the ones who have made it in the past, and I don't know of any other company with SAS expanders on the market. - Rich On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Andy Lubel wrote: > Backplane drivers should be irrelevant. The expander should speak a common

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell R510 SAS2 Backplane with SAS2008 (PERC H200)

2011-12-01 Thread Rich
If you got them from Dell, talk to Dell about them misbehaving. If you didn't, then I have even fewer constructive ideas. - Rich On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Andy Lubel wrote: > Yeah, its the drives.. whipped out a Hitachi 2TB SATA 3gbps drive and > plugged it in and it

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell R510 SAS2 Backplane with SAS2008 (PERC H200)

2011-12-02 Thread Rich
1) Last I heard, Dell EoL'd Solaris support for any but custom support contracts. 2) Dell reverted the non-Dell lockout on their card firmwares after there was an enormous backlash. - Rich On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:27 PM, James C. McPherson wrote: > On  2/12/11 09:52 AM, Andy Lub

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Best way to map SAS drives to physical positions

2011-12-08 Thread Rich
Quick thread revival to point out the following thing I noticed while stumbling around: http://www.lsi.com/downloads/Public/Host%20Bus%20Adapters/Host%20Bus%20Adapters%20Common%20Files/SAS_SATA_6G_P11/SAS2IRCU_P11.zip - Rich On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:16 AM, James C. McPherson wrote

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Can i used Desktop RAM??

2011-12-28 Thread Rich
This isn't really the list for that. That said, I believe that board and processor will take non-ECC RAM. - Rich On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Roshan Gowda wrote: > Hi, > > I am planning to buy Intel server board S1200BTL, processor E3-1230. Does > desktop RAM support for t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Jumpstart on OI

2012-01-11 Thread Rich
The closest thing you'll find, as far as I'm aware, is Automated Installer. My guide for beating that into working for me can be found at [1], which may or may not be useful for your purposes. If you find better information, by all means, please share it. - Rich On Wed, Jan 11, 2012

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Jumpstart on OI

2012-01-11 Thread Rich
It's important not to forget to include links when you intend them as a postscript. - Rich [1] - http://rincebrain.blogspot.com/2011/08/using-ai-to-do-unaided-install-on.html On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:48 AM, Rich wrote: > The closest thing you'll find, as far as I'm a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Jumpstart on OI

2012-01-11 Thread Rich
I also updated my stuff to work on OI_151a, though you probably did it less horribly than I did, and I also didn't post about it. Also, as I was told when I asked about such AI images for 151a, http://dlc-int.openindiana.org/151a/ - Rich On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Joshua M. Clulow

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell R510 SAS2 Backplane with SAS2008 (PERC H200)

2012-01-13 Thread Rich
Should do SATA 3 - I didn't think that SATA 3 speed for STP was an optional part of the SAS 2.0 spec. - Rich On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Grant Albitz wrote: > My reasoning behind the dual controller was simply that each controller has > 1gb of nvram cache and I figured t

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Solaris 11 11/11 Opensource part1 and part2

2012-02-01 Thread Rich
This has been out for awhile, and IIRC contains precisely 0 kernel source. - Rich On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote: > still not sure if it's wise to look upon it though ... > > there is some very serious development going into Illumos without the > Ora

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] persistent infiniband MTU setting

2012-03-01 Thread Rich
Aside: Linux defaults to running the IPoIB interface in CM, not UD, as of OFED 1.3 (released in 2008). As far as I'm aware, only Windows defaults to UD mode these days, and that should go away in the next OFED release. - Rich On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Dustin Marquess wrote: > Th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell R510 SAS2 Backplane with SAS2008 (PERC H200)

2012-04-04 Thread Rich
...what FW modifications did they make? - Rich On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Sergei wrote: > > Firmware modifications made by Dell to WD and may be Seagate drives is what > makes opensolaris not being able to power up those disks. > > Easiest way to make it work is to mod

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] we'll pay a bounty to fix three annoying problems in illumos

2012-04-09 Thread Rich
archives, you'll probably find some useful things. Fortunately, LSI has started posting newer versions of sas2ircu with newer firmware updates, so there's no annoying problems like sas2ircu crashing if you're plugged into an LSI SAS switch...any more. - Rich On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] disconnected drives, how to avoid in the future?

2012-04-12 Thread Rich
blogs.everycity.co.uk/alasdair/2011/05/adjusting-drive-timeouts-with-mdb-on-solaris-or-openindiana/) laying around somewhere easily grabbable? 17:34 <@Triskelios> not at the moment, should land on our public repo on bitbucket sometime soon - Rich On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Karl Rossing

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installing on system with a Broadcom 5720 NIC

2012-05-03 Thread Rich
The only commits I see are for updates to PCI IDs to include the BCM5720? Which commits are you looking at? - Rich On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 12:19 AM, Ian Collins wrote: > I'm evaluating OI on a new Dell R720 which has a Broadcom 5720 quad NIC. > > The device isn't recognis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] scsi errors

2012-05-07 Thread Rich
https://www.illumos.org/issues/1787 - Rich On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Hi all > > I have a few machines with openindiana 151, LSI 92xx mpt_sas controllers, and > Hitachi Deskstar drives, mostly 2TB ones. These work well, but they all (I > thin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to test ethernet throughput?

2012-05-18 Thread Rich
iperf is also your friend, as is dd+netcat+pv if you want something a bit less rigorous. - Rich On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Gordon Ross wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Gary Mills wrote: >> I'm just finishing a driver for the Atheros AR8131 and AR8132 ethernet &g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mapping target number to disk?

2012-06-11 Thread Rich
p information where are: Command specific values; enter "sas2ircu " to get command specific help # file ./sas2ircu.SunOS ./sas2ircu.SunOS: ELF 32-bit LSB executable 80386 Version 1, dynamically linked, stripped # uname -a SunOS [hostname] 5.11 oi_151a4 i86pc i386 i86pc

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] mapping target number to disk?

2012-06-11 Thread Rich
I added that because I have a folder with the Win32/Linux x86/Solaris x86 binaries all in it; it should be the same file you have. I'm wondering if there's any problems with executing binaries from the FS or user you were? - Rich On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:40 AM, wrote: > > T

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Drive compatibility

2012-06-11 Thread Rich
zdb's output and see what the ashift value of the disks in the pool is (it's a 2 << [ashift], so ashift=9 is 512b, =12 is 4096b,etc) - Rich On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 4:41 PM, Jay Heyl wrote: > I had a bit of a hiccup last week with my zfs pool. It's a ten-drive raidz2 > vdev

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Migrating root zpool from old disks to new one. only one system available

2012-06-11 Thread Rich
Won't zpool replace fail b/c the new disks require ashift=12 and his existing pool devices have ashift=9? - Rich On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:12 PM, James C. McPherson wrote: > On 12/06/12 08:39 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: >> >> Suppose: >> >> I have a system wi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HDD Upgrade problem

2012-06-11 Thread Rich
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Richard Elling wrote: > On Jun 11, 2012, at 6:08 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > >> On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Jim Klimov wrote: >>> ashift=12 (2^12 = 4096). For disks which do not lie, it >>> works properly out of the box. The patched zpool binary >>> forced ashift=12 at

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] The+AShift+Value+and+Advanced+Format+disks+and+ZFS

2012-06-17 Thread Rich
https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/2384d9f8fcca0a7ef8b3ae674d94df82832c0fce sure looks like it does this in Illumos, though I don't think the OI kernel in 151a4 is that new [OI IllumOS kernel is dated April 2012, that patch went into IllumOS early May]. - Rich On Sun, Jun 17, 20

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and chassis/jbod support?

2012-07-02 Thread Rich
diskmap.py is a publicly available script written by someone else whose name escapes me ATM which is useful for this. I also have my own scripts which aren't in any state for anyone else to look at ATM which do similar things. - Rich On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Lucas Van Tol

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which DELL controler voor Openindiana

2012-07-02 Thread Rich
What firmware reflashing are you thinking of? I don't expect a need to reflash the H310 unless you're going for the IT firmware... - Rich On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 07/02/2012 03:21 PM, Open Indiana wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I need some

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which DELL controler voor Openindiana

2012-07-02 Thread Rich
Is there a reason that just adding the PCI ID to mr_sas won't do anything sane? [I don't disagree re: IT FW + ZFS RAID versus hardware raid, just wondering.] - Rich On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:30 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 07/02/2012 08:01 PM, Rich wrote: >> What firmware

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Which DELL controler voor Openindiana

2012-07-02 Thread Rich
I mean, I'm perfectly capable of compiling my own mr_sas or doing an update_drv, the only reason I don't offer more concrete data is that I have no 12G Dell servers with an Hx10 around to play with. - Rich On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 07/02/2012 08:32 P

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Good Solaris-friendly system vendor

2012-07-02 Thread Rich
ntire system versus everything except the one component you swap out is attractive. :) - Rich On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2012, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: >> >> At the moment I use Dell hardware, but seeing as their new line of >> inte

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and chassis/jbod support?

2012-07-02 Thread Rich
pt provides] will do wonders... Thanks! - Rich On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:30 PM, Lucas Van Tol wrote: > > I think the only reason to use mine would be if you didn't like/couldn't use > sas2ircu for some reason (used by diskmap.py). > I didn't have much luck turning on l

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and chassis/jbod support?

2012-07-02 Thread Rich
or out of band I2C connectors. I know from physically checking that the former is connected. This was the problem I was investigating solving. - Rich On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Lucas Van Tol wrote: > > It's actually hex; not binary, I'm not sure why I typed that wrong. &g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and chassis/jbod support?

2012-07-02 Thread Rich
That's okay, smp_{read,write}_gpio and I are going on a grand adventure, and I'll get back to people when I have something useful to show for it. :) - Rich On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Lucas Van Tol wrote: > Sorry; I don't think I can help with that. My syst

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI and chassis/jbod support?

2012-07-02 Thread Rich
. [Having poked around a bit, I found that I can force LED blinking per SAS port (note that I didn't say SAS lane - all drives wired to said port blink or fail to blink at once, and no permutation of SGPIO register state that I found changes this).] - Rich On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:30 PM, Ri

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Help debugging and replacing failed (maybe)hard drive

2012-07-03 Thread Rich
MegaCli under Solaris will, in my experience, talk to PERC controllers. Just as a useful tidbit short of having to boot into the on-card BIOS or another OS and interrogate the card that way. - Rich On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Mike La Spina wrote: > Some things to consider. > > Ge

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken pkg in ipkg zones since update to oi_151a5

2012-07-05 Thread Rich
I was going to suggest setting up an a4 repo of your own from http://dlc-int.openindiana.org/repos/, but sadly, there is no prestable4 there. - Rich On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 07/05/2012 01:22 PM, Open Indiana wrote: >> Say that the auto-update/upgrade

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Broken pkg in ipkg zones since update to oi_151a5

2012-07-05 Thread Rich
Wasn't claiming it was a correct course of action, merely the functional one that came to mind. Then again, it's called "prestable" for a reason... - Rich On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 07/05/2012 01:29 PM, Rich wrote: >> I was going to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] MPT SGL mem alloc failed

2012-07-09 Thread Rich
27;s quite possible to eat up 24 GB very quickly with enough disk IO (assuming e.g. 100 MB/s IO, perfect transfer efficiency, and no other users of your RAM, it'd take 240 disks writing in parallel - in practice, I would not be surprised if half that were sufficient). - Rich On Mon, Jul 9,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] /etc/resolv.conf is always empty after OS updates

2012-07-16 Thread Rich
If you don't specify DNS servers in your NWAM config, then yes, resolv.conf will blow away whenever nwam next reloads, I believe. I presume you have reason to believe you are? - Rich On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:20 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: > After I updated to OI151_a5 (from ..

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Hanging zfs commands

2012-08-02 Thread Rich
I'd suggest trying to get a trace of where in the kernel it's blocking so that the deadlock can be found and fixed. What version of OI is this? - Rich On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Maurilio Longo wrote: > Hans, > > I've seen the same problem when using zfs list wi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to create a bootable USB stick on OI?

2012-08-17 Thread Rich
any of my OI systems]... - Rich On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Gary Mills wrote: > Has anybody figured out how to do this? I need to update the BIOS on > a system with a Tyan motherboard. Tyan support sent me an EXE file > and a BAT file along with the BIOS image as a ROM file. > >

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] 10GigE adapters for OI151a or later

2012-08-20 Thread Rich
Intel's 10GbE NICs work (as I understand it), I'm using Solarflare 10GbE NICs (they provide a Solaris driver which works fine on OI 151a*). There are almost certainly others, but those are what I know of off the top of my head. - Rich On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Matt Elli

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hba choice

2012-08-24 Thread Rich
I believe the -8i also ships with IR firmware OOTB, but flashing is no more complicated than the M1015. You may also enjoy the 92[01]7-8i, its newer PCIe gen 3 cousin. - Rich On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Robbie Crash wrote: > I'm running an LSI SAS2008-8 as well, no

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] sata hba choice

2012-08-24 Thread Rich
You know, you'd think so. There's lots of opinions on SAS expanders, and the general consensus seems to be "if you can avoid the complication, doso". - Rich On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 12:07 PM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 08/24/2012 06:04 PM, Jason J. W. Williams wrote: >&

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HW sensors for OI?

2012-08-27 Thread Rich
The IPMI driver from FreeBSD got ported by the SmartOS guys back in April. - Rich On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Jason Matthews wrote: > >> there was a chance of porting *BSD BMC drivers as a legal >> solution, or finding and using driver binaries from older >> OpenSola

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] DELL R320

2012-08-28 Thread Rich
The H710 should work great with the mpt_sas or mr_sas driver in OI - you may need to add a PCI ID, but I believe it should Just Work(tm) otherwise. What problem are you having with the Broadcom cards? I haven't run into any such problems. - Rich On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Sašo Kis

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] AMD Hudson SATA

2012-08-30 Thread Rich
Does forceload matter if the ahci driver isn't in the miniroot? [Dunno if it is or not, just suggesting you look.] - Rich On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Jim Klimov wrote: > So, this adventure is going from strange to weird and back. > The Live image with original ahci driver o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell R320 need advices

2012-09-21 Thread Rich
a.org/legacy/ AFAICS that's just an Oracle Solaris package. system/storage/{sg3_utils,sasinfo,vdiskadm} are around though. If there's anything in that package that isn't listed there [I can't easily find an enumeration, then by all means, list it. :) - Rich On Fri, Sep 21,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell Precision T3600 with Openindiana 151a7 ?

2012-10-12 Thread Rich
All 4 are listed in there as being SAS2008-based, which makes sense [AFAIK, Dell has no cards based on the LSI 22xx/23xx lines of chips yet]. - Rich On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 6:33 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > On 10/11/2012 11:23 AM, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote: >> On 11/10/2012 10:35, Sašo

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Only one SSD detected on expander

2012-10-17 Thread Rich
er. If you want to shell out for SAS -> SATA interposers, that would probably also solve it, though I can't swear to anything, but that'd probably be more expensive than returning + replacing the SSDs. Don't know. If it were me, I'd complain to Samsung support and see what

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI on Dell R810

2012-10-24 Thread Rich
I assure you, the R810s I have running OI do not, and have never in the past, had this problem. Perhaps it's a misbehaving interaction with the watchdog timer? Do you have the OS watchdog turned on in the BIOS? - Rich On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 5:06 AM, Ram Chander wrote: > Hi, &g

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI on Dell R810

2012-10-25 Thread Rich
Onboard we have Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet The "RAID" card is a PERC H200. - RIch On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Roel_D wrote: > Little offtopic, but what type of raid controller do they have and Nics? > > I still have problems installin

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] An interesting experience with sata drives on an HBA

2012-11-12 Thread Rich
The 830 has a known problem where all the drives report the same WWN. So if you put them in the same SAS topology... - Rich On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > > I have an M1015 (rebadged LSI HBA with two 8087 connectors.) One of them > connects to a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] oi151a7 fails to see disks with dell perc h310

2012-12-06 Thread Rich
My R810 and R815 with their Broadcom NICs work great with the bnx driver from SmartOS. [1] I have no idea where they got it, or how redistributable it is. But. The NICs work great, and the BMC works great with that driver (unlike without it). - Rich [1] - https://github.com/joyent/smartos-live

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Joining an Active Directory Domain with smbadm

2012-12-06 Thread Rich
FWIW AD binds do work - I'm currently running a number of OI systems bound to an AD without any special magic. Then again, I'm also running DNS services with a delegation for the AD subdomain, so that differs from your setup... - Rich On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Peter Tripp wro

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash

2013-01-15 Thread Rich
mkdir -p /var/crash/$(hostname) pfexec dumpadm -y And ideally, put "set dump_plat_mincpu=0" in /etc/system, lest the core dump code try to thread and fail miserably. Next time you die, you should get a core dump in /var/crash/[hostname]/, presuming your dump device has enough space.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell Precision T3600 with Openindiana 151a7 ?

2013-01-19 Thread Rich
u want to avoid buying a USB 3 hard drive, but if that's why, you should probably reconsider. - Rich ___ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installation on HD => 2TB

2013-01-31 Thread Rich
bet a dollar if you tried concatenating the zpool, nothing sane would happen]. It's also possible that your problem is that the 2T drive is doing SATA 3 and something is buggy in how OI is handling the SATA 3 (whereas the 250GB drive is likely SATA 1/2). - Rich On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 8

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Installation on HD => 2TB

2013-01-31 Thread Rich
(My advice, BTW, would be to try putting the 2T drive into one of the SATA 2 ports, and seeing what transpires.) - Rich On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 11:54 PM, Rich wrote: > Most BIOSes really don't like trying to boot to things beyond a > certain threshold into the drive [who e

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Unable to load RAID driver

2013-02-26 Thread Rich
;t flashed correctly, or the config data on it is mangled, or the mpt_sas driver is expecting something to be true on IL/OI that isn't, but the mpt_sas drivers on other OSes know how to deal with this. - Rich On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Jason Matthews wrote: > > you can probab

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Unable to load RAID driver

2013-02-26 Thread Rich
The M1015 is essentially a 9211-8i running the IR firmware with vendor-specific bits added. - Rich On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Jason Matthews wrote: > > after reviewing the original request i am a bit confused. > > your output says you have a megaraid card. the 9211-11 isnt meg

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] intel 10G nic on OI

2013-03-06 Thread Rich
I'd expect it to Just Work with the ixgbe drivers in OI - I know the X520-T2 does. What happens if you ifconfig ixgbe0 plumb? - Rich On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Randy S wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm looking to test an intel 10G nic on oi 151a7. The type is : Intel®

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] bmc driver in Openindiana for Supermicro IPMI controllers?

2013-03-19 Thread Rich
The IPMI driver that is in upstream Illumos will presumably do the thing you want with OpenIPMI. Of course, to my knowledge, there's no version of OI cut with that revision of Illumos, so... - Rich On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: > Anyone know if there'

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How can one test in situ, and under OI, the physical blocksize a SATA disk actually reports??

2013-03-20 Thread Rich
revision 4 SATA Version is: SATA 3.0, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s) Local Time is:Wed Mar 20 10:17:02 2013 EDT SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability. SMART support is: Enabled - Rich On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: > But still, your suggest

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How can one test in situ, and under OI, the physical blocksize a SATA disk actually reports??

2013-03-20 Thread Rich
I had luck with the following entry when I couldn't easily convince the matching to work, perhaps it's overkill for you. sd-config-list = "**","physical-block-size:4096"; - Rich On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Hans J. Albertsson wrote: > Hmm. I'm havi

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Problem with Dell iDRAC

2013-04-22 Thread Rich
great with that driver loaded and not the stock one. [I have a ticket about this for Dell R815s - https://www.illumos.org/issues/1552 ] - Rich On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Kris Henriksson wrote: > I've been having a long-standing issue with using the iDRAC on my > server with

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] build xbindkeys from source

2013-07-29 Thread Rich
Close, but still not quite. -g is the debug flag, -O2 indicates optimization. - Rich On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 3:55 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Harry Putnam writes: > > > Removing 3 of the -I. and what I guess is the debug flag > > (-dguile_flag=1) does eliminate some of the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Accessing smb shares from windows

2013-09-25 Thread Rich
At a guess, if you don't have the OI box joined to the AD domain, it's going to map any users you haven't explicitly specified in idmap to guest. So that would be your issue there, at least. - Rich On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Harry Putnam writes:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Accessing smb shares from windows

2013-09-25 Thread Rich
st, a Windows account, or something else entirely? - Rich On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Rich writes: > >> At a guess, if you don't have the OI box joined to the AD domain, it's >> going to map any users you haven't explicitly specified in

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Replacing Solaris 10 u8

2021-03-25 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 25 Mar 2021, John D Groenveld wrote: > Lots of options for running legacy software on top of illumos and > we are still 6 days from Rich Teer's favorite holiday. Talk about an unexpected random mention! :-) Long time, no speak John! Hope all is well with you. Cheers, --

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] How to straighten out an /etc/passwd /etc/opasswd mess I've created

2022-05-31 Thread Rich Teer
y of those files! Always use the appropriate commands instead (useradd/groupadd, etc.). > Is there some way to fix this short of reinstall? I think that might be your best option, assuming you don't have a working backup or snapshot to which you can revert.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenOffice come back with 3.4 release

2012-05-14 Thread Rich Reynolds
purported full pkg installs here: http://www.openfoundry.org/of/download_path/osscd/3.4.0m1_Rev1293550/OOo-Dev_OOO340m1_Solaris_x86_install_en-US.tar.gz rich On 05/14/12 04:55 AM, Nikola M. wrote: On 05/13/12 06:29 PM, Edward M wrote: i too run Openoffice on OI and Solaris. So I emailed to

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenOffice come back with 3.4 release

2012-05-15 Thread Rich Reynolds
will continue to look at the cloned svn tree for spec-able building, as even less time permits. rich On 05/15/12 07:05 AM, Paolo Marcheschi wrote: Hi I tried to install it but it doesn't run. Do you had any luck ? Paolo On 05/14/12 11:14 PM, Rich Reynolds wrote: purported full pkg ins

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenOffice come back with 3.4 release

2012-05-26 Thread Rich Reynolds
2012 22:13:11 -0500 De : Pedro Giffuni Répondre à : ooo-...@incubator.apache.org Pour : ooo-...@incubator.apache.org Copie à : Rich Reynolds Groupes de discussion: gmane.comp.apache.incubator.ooo.devel Références : <4fbede69.2090...@redstar-assoc.com> On 05/24/12 20:20, Rich Reynolds wrote

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Fwd: Re: Unofficial Solaris 11/x86 3.4 build

2012-06-07 Thread Rich Reynolds
FYI ... rich Original Message Subject: Re: Unofficial Solaris 11/x86 3.4 build Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:15:46 +0200 From: Raphael Bircher Reply-To: ooo-...@incubator.apache.org To: ooo-...@incubator.apache.org Am 04.06.12 23:55, schrieb Nicolas Christener: Hi all :) After

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Case sensitivity "mixed" vs "sensitive"

2014-06-06 Thread Rich Teer
other words, your touch commands might've been operating on the same file. HTH, -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Multiple monitor support

2015-09-12 Thread Rich Reynolds
groenv...@acm.org ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss and there is always -s to undo whatever you just broke. rich

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Kernel panic on hung zpool accessed via lofi

2015-09-16 Thread Rich Murphey
e you from swapping other parts to try to resolve issues, but rather look at Smart metrics as well. Best regards, Rich - SMART 5 – Reallocated_Sector_Count. - SMART 187 – Reported_Uncorrectable_Errors. - SMART 188 – Command_Timeout. - SMART 197 – Current_Pending_Sec

[OpenIndiana-discuss] HP support pack for proliant on hipster?

2015-09-21 Thread Rich Murphey
ay to approach this? Thanks, Rich wget http://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/pubsw-linux/p545867630/v112131/hpsb-2015.07.0-s11-x86.p5p pkg install --no-refresh -g hpsb-2015.07.0-s11-x86.p5p proliant/management/hpssacli Creating Plan (Solver setup): - pkg install: No matching version of pro

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] HP support pack for proliant on hipster?

2015-09-22 Thread Rich Murphey
On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 2:17 AM Alexander Pyhalov wrote: > On 09/22/2015 00:17, Rich Murphey wrote: > > Does anyone have recommendations on how to install the current HP Support > > Pack for Proliant (SPP) utilities on the current hipster release?I'm > > askin

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Support for USB3?

2015-10-28 Thread Rich Teer
20 M2. (I'm currently using one of the on-board USB2 interfaces, but the 480 Mb/s speed is killing me!) Cheers, -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindian

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Support for USB3?

2015-10-28 Thread Rich Teer
so I bought a 4-bay enclosure with eSATA and USB-3 connections. The enclosure requires that the HBA supports SATA port multipliers, but unfortunately the LSI HBA I'm using doesn't. I'm more than willing to give eSATA a try, if someone is happy to recommend a cheap enough HBA th

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Support for USB3?

2015-11-03 Thread Rich Teer
take it from there. (I can't believe that I just wrote that; my how times have changed!) -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com ___ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Support for USB3?

2015-11-03 Thread Rich Teer
t (and they don't forget how to do ZFS when they get a new kernel) Hmm, that's a good idea (although the browser-only stuff gives me pause). I like the idea of ZFS boot. I guess I should really take a closer look at ZFS on FreeBSD too... -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Maga

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Support for USB3?

2015-11-05 Thread Rich Teer
t would be ideal, but I'll also consider anything that is supported by Linux or FreeBSD. I'm currently thinking about getting one of the StarTech eSATA or USB-3 cards. Cheers, -- Rich Teer, Publisher Vinylphile Magazine www.vinylphilemag.com ___

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