The standard controller that has been recommended in the past is the
AOC-SAT2-MV8 - an 8 port with a marvel chipset. There have been several
mentions of LSI based controllers on the mailing lists and I'm wondering
about them.
One obvious difference is that the Marvel contoller is PCI-X and the LS
Forgot to include links. See below.
Thanks.
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Nicholas Lee wrote:
>
> Supermicro have several LSI controllers. AOC-USASLP-L8i with the LSI 1068E
> and AOC-USASLP-H8iR with the LSI 1078.
>
http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-USASLP-L8i.cfm
http
I have a USB disk with opensolaris200906 installed.
I'm using it to test OS on the different boxes.
Recently(B109, B110, B111) I run into a weird problem from time
to time.
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SunOS Release 5.11 Version snv_111 64-bit
Copyright 1983-2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Al
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 08:35:08PM +1200, Nicholas Lee wrote:
> Supermicro have several LSI controllers. AOC-USASLP-L8i with the LSI 1068E
> and AOC-USASLP-H8iR with the LSI 1078.
>
> Are they stable? How does is the performance compare to the Marvel? Does
> hot swap cause problems?
I've run bo
Andre van Eyssen wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Rince wrote:
>
> > FWIW, I strongly expect live ripping of a SATA device to not panic the disk
> > layer. It explicitly shouldn't panic the ZFS layer, as ZFS is supposed to be
> > "fault-tolerant" and "drive dropping away at any time" is a rather exp
"Fajar A. Nugraha" writes:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Thanks for the input... I guess I'll have to wait and see what is
>> resolved in the other thread about what happens when you rsync data to
>> a zfs filesystem and how that inter plays with zfs snapshots going o
> guess the upshot is that if one were to daily rsync data to an zfs
> filesystem, the changes wrought there by rsync would be reflected in
> zfs snapshots, maybe timed to happen right after the rsync runs, as
> these new blocks covering only the deltas... I don't really know what
> deltas are... b
Nicholas Lee wrote:
>
> The standard controller that has been recommended in the past is the
> AOC-SAT2-MV8 - an 8 port with a marvel chipset. There have been several
> mentions of LSI based controllers on the mailing lists and I'm wondering
> about them.
We tried the Marvel controller, and it
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Alan Batie wrote:
> Nicholas Lee wrote:
> >
> > The standard controller that has been recommended in the past is the
> > AOC-SAT2-MV8 - an 8 port with a marvel chipset. There have been several
> > mentions of LSI based controllers on the mailing lists and I'm won
