Hi James > I do not think that you are reading the data > correctly. > > The issues that we have seen via this list and > storage-discuss > have implicated downrev firmware on cards, and the > various different > disk drives that people choose to attach to those > cards. Thanks for pointing that out. I have indeed noticed such reports but I didn't see any specific plans or ack's to take these issues from mpt. Thus the question is if these reports justify the assumption that there was anything wrong with mpt in general.
> > The use of SAS expanders with mpt-based cards is > *not* an issue. > The use of MPxIO with mpt-based cards is *not* an > issue. I didn't want to make the point of denying some of mpt's core features. I just saw a couple of reports that involved SAS Expanders, specifically those based on LSI silicon, reported under the "mpt problem" umbrella, and I understood that these issues were quite obstinate. > Personally, I'm quite happy with the LSISAS3081E that > I have > installed in my system, with the attached 320Gb > consumer-grade > SATA2 disks. > Excellent. That's encouraging. I am planning a similar configuration, with WD RE3 1 TB disks though. Regards, Tonmaus -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
