Andre van Eyssen schrieb: > On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, Jacob Ritorto wrote: > >> Is there a card for OpenSolaris 2009.06 SPARC that will do SATA >> correctly yet? Need it for a super cheapie, low expectations, >> SunBlade 100 filer, so I think it has to be notched for 5v PCI slot, >> iirc. I'm OK with slow -- main goals here are power saving (sleep all >> 4 disks) and 1TB+ space. Oh, and I hate to be an old head, but I >> don't want a peecee. They still scare me :) Thinking root pool on >> 16GB ssd, perhaps, so the thing can spin down the main pool and idle >> *really* cheaply.. > > The LSI SAS controllers with SATA ports work nicely with SPARC. I have > one in my V880. On a Blade-100, however, you might have some issues due > to the craptitude of the PCI slots. > > To be honest, the Grover was a fun machine at the time, but I think that > time may have passed. > > Oh, and if you do grab the LSI card, don't let James catch you using the > itmpt driver or lsiutils ;-) >
I'm also using an LSI SAS card for attaching sata disks to a Blade 2500. In my experience there is some severe problems: 1) Once the disks spin down due to idleness it can become impossible to reactivate them without doing a full reboot (i.e. hot plugging won't help) 2) disks that were attached once leave a stale /dev/dsk entry behind that takes full 7 seconds to stat() with kernel running at 100%. Apart from that it works fine. - Thomas _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
