On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 18:00:04 -0400
Miles Nordin <car...@ivy.net> wrote:

> >>>>> "t" == Tim  <t...@tcsac.net> writes:
> 
>      t> 
> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/zfs-crypto/phase2/usr/src/pkgdefs/SUNWmegasas/postinstall?&r=6542
> 
> thanks.
> 
>      t> Looks like there's a TON of supported cards.
> 
> They are all 1078 cards though.  James mentioned mega_sas supports
> some 1068E cards depending on the firmware?

Yes, that's correct. Not very convenient, I'm afraid.
 
> The 1078 seem to have rather large built-in write caches and thus be
> expensive and unnecessary for people who want to do raidz/slog.  For
> example a lot of the cardsd are PERC with 4 ports for $500---costs
> more than the drives you plug it into.  Are there any cheap cards for
> mega_sas?

I don't know, sorry. I've only ever seen Sun and Dell-branded
MegaRAID SAS cards, and I have no idea about pricing.

> any word on which cards work on SPARC?
> 
>      t> http://pci-ids.ucw.cz/read/PC/1000/0060
> 
> or else the whole list at pciids.sourceforge.net in the mail i quoted

We haven't got mega_sas on SPARC at this point either.


James C. McPherson
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Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris
Sun Microsystems
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