On 9/9/06, Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On September 9, 2006 10:51:30 AM -0500 David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On 9/9/06, Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On September 8, 2006 9:34:29 PM -0500 David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> > My first real-hardware Solaris install. I've installed S10 u2 on a
>> > system with an Asus M2n-SLI Deluxe nForce 570-SLI motherboard, Athlon
>> > 64 X2 dual core CPU. It's in a Chenbro SR107 case with two Chenbro
>> > 4-drive SATA hot-swap bays.
>> ... [ hot swap doesn't work ] ...
>> > So what's going on?
>>
>> S10 does not support SATA hot swap unless they are SATA drives behind
>> a SAS controller.
>
> Gack!
>
> I don't want to sound *too* pissy about this, but I'd be a lot happier
> if somebody had thought to mention this when I was first asking about
> issues I'd face building a home disk server on an SATA hot-swap box.
> Because now I've invested $2k in this box that apparently can't really
> do what I want, at least yet.
Buy a SAS controller. Of course that's more money down the hole if it
doesn't work out for you.
If it comes to that, I buy one of the SATA controllers known to work
(there's a Supermicro card, for example).
I probably run without hot swap for a while, until either it comes
out, or I get tired enough of it to buy a card. Or else I run Linux,
but that loses me the ability to add mirrors into the pool (expanding
pool size) and the block checksums and scrubbing, so that's not so
attractive (unless the ZFS port goes unexpectedly fast).
My big worry going to Solaris was hardware compatibility, and I've
gotten bitten pretty bad by it here. Sigh.
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