[smartos-discuss] RE: [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-discuss@lists.smartos.org > Subject: RE: [developer] HBA

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

2014-05-21 Thread Garrett D'Amore via smartos-discuss
Sent from my iPhone On May 21, 2014, at 7:05 AM, Zhiwen Zheng via smartos-discuss smartos-discuss@lists.smartos.org wrote: 在 2014-5-21 上午12:15,Keith Wesolowski keith.wesolow...@joyent.com写道: On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:30:13PM +0800, Zhiwen Zheng wrote: I tried to add suport for

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

2014-05-05 Thread Keith Wesolowski
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

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

2014-05-05 Thread Zhiwen Zheng
Hi, I get an Adaptec card several days ago, the pci id changed, after add the new pci id, pmcs still can not attach. I checked the linux pm8001 driver, it seems to access some registers, pci bar 4 address need to be shifted. I am out of door now, I think I can try to fix this several days

[smartos-discuss] RE: [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

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

2014-05-04 Thread Keith Wesolowski
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:

[smartos-discuss] RE: [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

2014-04-30 Thread Fred Liu via smartos-discuss
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:

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

2014-04-30 Thread Keith Wesolowski via smartos-discuss
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.

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

2014-04-30 Thread Fred Liu via smartos-discuss
Keith Wesolowski via smartos-discuss smartos-discuss@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

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

2014-04-30 Thread Keith Wesolowski via smartos-discuss
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 try. Does it work well with commodity sata drives? Unknown. The

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

2014-04-30 Thread Fred Liu via smartos-discuss
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