On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Peeyush Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> Hey guys, please excuse me in advance if I say or ask anything stupid :) >> >> Anyway, Solaris newbie here. I've built for myself a new file server to >> use at home, in which I'm planning on configuring SXCE-89 & ZFS. It's a >> Supermicro C2SBX motherboard with a Core2Duo & 4GB DDR3. I have 6x750GB >> SATA drives in it connected to the onboard ICH9-R controller (with BIOS RAID >> disabled & AHCI enabled). I also have a 160GB SATA drive connected to a PCI >> SIIG SC-SA0012-S1 controller, the drive which will be used as the system >> drive. My plan is to configure a RAID-Z2 pool on the 6x750 drives. The >> system drive is just there for Solaris. I'm also out of ports to use on the >> motherboard, hence why I'm using an add-in PCI SATA controller. >> >> My problem is that Solaris is not recognizing the system drive during the >> DVD install procedure. It sees the 6x750GB onboard drives fine. I >> originally used a RocketRAID 1720 SATA controller, which uses its own >> HighPoint chipset I believe, and it was a no-go. I went and exchanged that >> controller for a SIIG SC-SA0012-S1 controller, which I thought used a >> Silicon Integrated (SII) chipset. The install DVD isn't recognizing it >> unfortunatly, & now I'm not so sure that it uses a SII chipset. I checked >> the HCL, and it only lists a few cards that are reported to work under SXCE. >> >> If anyone has any suggestions on either... >> A) Using a different driver during the install procedure, or... >> B) A different, cheap SATA controller >> >> I'd appreciate it very much. Sorry for the rambling post, but I wanted to >> be detailed from the get-go. Thanks for any input! :) >> >> PS. On a side note, I'm interested in playing around with SXCE >> development. It looks interesting :) >> >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > > I'm still a fan of the marvell based supermicro card. I run two of them in > my fileserver. AOC-SAT2-MV8 > > http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm >
I gave treatment to this question a few days ago. Yes, if you want PCI-X, go with the Marvell. If you want PCIe SATA, then its either a SIIG produced Si3124 card or a lot of guessing. I think the real winner is going to be the newer SAS/SATA mixed HBAs from LSI based on the 1068 chipset, which Sun has been supporting well in newer hardware. http://jmlittle.blogspot.com/2008/06/recommended-disk-controllers-for-zfs.html Equally important, don't mix SATA-I and SATA-II on that system motherboard, or on one of those add-on cards. http://jmlittle.blogspot.com/2008/05/mixing-sata-dos-and-donts.html > It's the same chipset that's in the thumper, and it pretty cheap for an > 8-port card. > > --Tim > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
