Hi Jerry, Couple of things that might help you troubleshoot your Intel SASUC8I HBA:
1. Are you seeing all the 8 devices in the BIOS for the card? 2. If yes, do other operating systems (say a Linux LiveCD) see all the disks too? 3. Is there any difference between the disks (e.g. four 2TB Seagate SATA2 and four 2TB Seagate SATA3)? 4. Can you double check which four disks are showing up? If you swap the SAS cables is it the same four? Check by printing SAS WWNs of your devices: #prtconf -v |grep -A 1 wwn |grep value If only OI is missing the extra disks (yes to #1 and #2) then a firmware update might help. Since that intel card is just a rebadge of the LSI 3801E as an alternative to just updating to the newest Intel IT/IR firmware, you also have the option of flashing the LSI IT firmware which is optimal for use with ZFS (since you don't need any integrated RAID), it should work fine with whatever firmware Intel provides though. http://www.servethehome.com/flashing-intel-sasuc8i-lsi-firmware-guide/ Thanks -Pete On Nov 19, 2012, at 11:45 AM, Jerry Kemp wrote: > Hello Gregg, > > I acquired one of these > > Intel RAID Controller Card SATA/SAS PCI-E x8 8internal ports (SASUC8I) > > from your newegg link below, and then acquired the necessary cables to > get everything hooked up. After multiple executions of devfsadm and > reconfigure boots, the OS see's one of my 4 drives. The drives are 2 TB > Seagate drives. > > Did you need to do anything special to get your card to work correctly? > Did you need to do a firmware upgrade or anything? > > I am running an up-to-date version of OpenIndiana b151a7. > > Thank you, > > Jerry > > > > > On 10/26/12 10:02 AM, Gregg Wonderly wrote: >> I've been using this card >> >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816117157 >> >> for my Solaris/Open Indiana installations because it has 8 ports. One of >> the issues that this card seems to have, is that certain failures can cause >> other secondary problems in other drives on the same SAS connector. I use >> mirrors for my storage machines with 4 pairs, and just put half the mirror >> on one side and the other drive on the other side. This, in general, has >> solved my problems. When a drive fails, I might see more than one drive no >> functioning. I can remove (I use hot swap bays such as >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994097) a drive, >> and restore the other to the pool to find which of the failed drives is >> actually the problem. What had happened before, was that my case was not >> moving enough air, and the hot drives had caused odd problems with failure. >> >> For the money, and the experience I have with these controllers, I'd still >> use them, they are 3GBs controllers. If you want 6GBs controllers, then >> some of the other suggestions might be a better choice for you. >> >> Gregg >> > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
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