Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2016-03-25 Thread Fred Liu
> -Original Message- > From: Fred Liu > Sent: 星期二, 五月 06, 2014 12:22 > To: Zhiwen Zheng; Keith Wesolowski > Cc: omnios-disc...@lists.omniti.com; Discussion list for OpenIndiana; Fred > Liu; > develo...@lists.illumos.org; smartos-disc...@lists.smartos.org > Subject: RE: [developer] HBA

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2014-05-20 Thread Discussion list for OpenIndiana
On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 02:42:54AM -0700, Fred Liu wrote: I haven’t got a sas drive to test. But the price delta between sas and sata drive under the same capacity is not small like USD30 at all. ☹. I'll counter nebulous griping with hard data:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2014-05-20 Thread Discussion list for OpenIndiana
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:13:49AM -0700, Fred Liu wrote: Is 6805H/6405H(http://www.adaptec.com//en-us/products/series/6h/) worthy of recommendation too? That uses the PM8001, which I believe is the same ASIC I have direct experience with. So it would be good to look at too, yes.

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2014-05-20 Thread Discussion list for OpenIndiana
On Tue, May 06, 2014 at 12:10:24AM +0800, Fred Liu wrote: I have a 6805H in hand and illumos can not detect it. But I don't have experience porting driver in FreeBSD it has to illumos. And I do NOT want to waste my money.:-) Therefore I would like to do anything to pursue this as long as I

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2014-05-20 Thread Discussion list for OpenIndiana
On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 02:49:15AM -0700, Fred Liu wrote: Just like what Bob mentioned, the current pmcs(7D) in illumos cannot work with 6H/7H series of HBAs. Even replaced with SAS drives, the effort is still in vain. Are you sure the 6-series needs more than just PCI IDs? It's the same

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2014-05-05 Thread Fred Liu
-Original Message- From: Keith Wesolowski [mailto:keith.wesolow...@joyent.com] Sent: 星期一, 五月 05, 2014 10:19 To: Fred Liu Cc: Fred Liu; smartos-disc...@lists.smartos.org; develo...@lists.illumos.org; Discussion list for OpenIndiana; OmniOS- disc...@lists.omniti.com Subject: Re:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2014-05-05 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/05/05 11:54 +0200, Fred Liu a écrit: Just like what Bob mentioned, the current pmcs(7D) in illumos cannot work with 6H/7H series of HBAs. Even replaced with SAS drives, the effort is still in vain. Anyway, it looks like there is a very clear gap between commodity and enterprise

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2014-05-05 Thread Fred Liu
Laurent Blume laurent...@elanor.org于2014年5月5日星期一写道: Le 2014/05/05 11:54 +0200, Fred Liu a écrit: Just like what Bob mentioned, the current pmcs(7D) in illumos cannot work with 6H/7H series of HBAs. Even replaced with SAS drives, the effort is still in vain. Anyway, it looks like there is

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2014-05-05 Thread Laurent Blume
Le 2014/05/05 17:22 +0200, Fred Liu a écrit: [Fred]: I also heard of this HBA. It has 4 ports as max and very limited bus bandwidth Well, hey, consumer! :-) [Fred]: you have good luck! :-) 哈哈,真的很好运阿! I did have issues, the usual failing disks and stuff, but there's been no datalose, and

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2014-05-05 Thread Fred Liu
Laurent Blume laurent...@elanor.org于2014年5月5日星期一写道: Le 2014/05/05 17:22 +0200, Fred Liu a écrit: [Fred]: I also heard of this HBA. It has 4 ports as max and very limited bus bandwidth Well, hey, consumer! :-) [Fred]: hr, I agree! :-) [Fred]: you have good luck! :-) 哈哈,真的很好运阿!

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2014-05-05 Thread Fred Liu
Keith Wesolowski keith.wesolow...@joyent.com于2014年5月5日星期一写道: On Mon, May 05, 2014 at 02:49:15AM -0700, Fred Liu wrote: Just like what Bob mentioned, the current pmcs(7D) in illumos cannot work with 6H/7H series of HBAs. Even replaced with SAS drives, the effort is still in vain. Are you

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2014-05-05 Thread Fred Liu
From: Zhiwen Zheng [mailto:zhiwen...@gmail.com] Sent: 星期二, 五月 06, 2014 10:09 To: Keith Wesolowski Cc: omnios-disc...@lists.omniti.com; Fred Liu; Discussion list for OpenIndiana; Fred Liu; develo...@lists.illumos.org; smartos-disc...@lists.smartos.org Subject: Re: [developer] HBA recommended

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2014-05-04 Thread Fred Liu
[fred]:ok. Let's see how it goes after I get the hba. [fred]: I have got 6805H HBA. It can recognize the sata drives in bios but these drives cannot be detected in the latest illumos(smartos,oi) release. I haven’t got a sas drive to test. But the price delta between sas and sata

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2014-04-30 Thread Fred Liu
Is 6805H/6405H(http://www.adaptec.com//en-us/products/series/6h/) worthy of recommendation too? Thanks. Fred -Original Message- From: Keith Wesolowski [mailto:keith.wesolow...@joyent.com] Sent: 星期四, 五月 01, 2014 0:29 To: Fred Liu Cc: develo...@lists.illumos.org Subject: Re:

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2014-04-30 Thread Fred Liu
Keith Wesolowski via smartos-discuss smartos-disc...@lists.smartos.org 于2014年5月1日星期四写道: On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:13:49AM -0700, Fred Liu wrote: Is 6805H/6405H(http://www.adaptec.com//en-us/products/series/6h/) worthy of recommendation too? That uses the PM8001, which I believe is the

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2014-04-30 Thread Fred Liu
Keith Wesolowski keith.wesolow...@joyent.com于2014年5月1日星期四写道: On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 02:13:38AM +0800, Fred Liu wrote: That uses the PM8001, which I believe is the same ASIC I have direct experience with. So it would be good to look at too, yes. [fred]: gotcha! I will give it a