On 3/24/07, Frank Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On March 23, 2007 5:38:20 PM +0800 Wee Yeh Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I should be able to reply to you next Tuesday -- my 6140 SATA > expansion tray is due to arrive. Meanwhile, what kind of problem do > you have with the 3511?
Frank, As promised. I got my 6140 SATA delivered yesterday and I hooked it up to a T2000 on S10u3. The T2000 saw the disks straight away and is "working" for the last 1 hour. I'll be running some benchmarks on it. I'll probably have a week with it until our vendor comes around and steals it from me.
I'm not sure that it had anything to do with the raid controller being present or not. The initial configuration (5x250 original sata disks) worked well. Changing the disks to 750gb disks worked well. Then I had to get 7 more drive carriers and then some of the slots didn't work -- disks would not spin up. The 7 addt'l carriers had different electronics than the original 5. Just a hardware revision, I suppose. Oh, and they were "dot hill" labelled instead of Sun labelled (dot hill is the OEM for the 3510/3511). When I was able to replace the 7 new carriers with ones that looked like the original 5 (same electronics and Sun branding), I had better luck but there was still one or two slots that were SOL. Swapping hardware around, I identified that it was definitely the slot and not a carrier or drive problem. But maybe a bad carrier "broke" the slot itself. I dunno! I was tempted to just use the array with the 10 or 11 slots that worked, since I got it for a very good price, but I was worried that there'd be more failures in the future, and the cost savings wasn't worth even the potential hassle of having to deal with that.
I had bits of problems with using my controller 3510 as JBOD as well. Essentially, the disks seems to go away and come back especially when the system reboots. The problem is cleared only when I replaced the controller circuit with the JBOD circuit. That said, I had another 3510 JBOD that has been running very well for over 6 months now. -- Just me, Wire ... _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
