On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Joe Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 **pci or pci-x. Yes, you might see *SOME* loss in speed from a pci interface, but let's be honest, there aren't a whole lot of users on this list that have the infrastructure to use greater than 100MB/sec who are asking this sort of question. A PCI bus should have no issues pushing that. > > > 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 > > I mix SATA-I and SATA-II and haven't had any issues to date. Unless you have an official bug logged/linked, that's as good as a wives tail.
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