Re: [zfs-discuss] Sans Digital Tower Raid TR8M

2009-07-03 Thread Carson Gaspar
Martin Englund wrote: I'm wondering if someone has tried using Sans Digital's Tower Raid TR8M[1] with ZFS (I'm especially curious about the bundled 2-port eSATA PCIe Host Bus Adapter) The port multiplier issue will probably prevent this from working right now, as someone else has already menti

Re: [zfs-discuss] Sans Digital Tower Raid TR8M

2009-07-03 Thread Stan Seibert
It sounds like this tower uses a port multiplier to multiplex 8 drives onto two eSATA cables. I know SATA port multiplier support is being worked on, but I'm not sure if it is done yet: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=84068&tstart=0 -- This message posted from opensolaris.org

[zfs-discuss] Sans Digital Tower Raid TR8M

2009-07-03 Thread Martin Englund
I'm wondering if someone has tried using Sans Digital's Tower Raid TR8M[1] with ZFS (I'm especially curious about the bundled 2-port eSATA PCIe Host Bus Adapter) It seems like an very good expansion tower as it holds up to 8 SATA disks, but before I dish out $395 I'd like to know that it works