no, no SAS expanders here :) thanks ... now I just have to persuade my colleague to let me change the hardware.
On 8 October 2013 16:36, Saso Kiselkov <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/8/13 4:20 PM, Jonathan Adams wrote: > > they're SATA drives, Western DIgital 4000 FYYZ drives (the RE4 ones) ... > > These are enterprise SATA drives, so you *should* be okay. > > > the hardware is bought ... as SATA drives these ones work the best we've > > tried, the HighPoint should have worked in Linux/FreeBSD ... and it does > > if we put in a random bunch of old Seagates, but the shiny new WD's fall > > over until the machine is rebooted. > > > > I'm willing to take any advice on a card/solution to get the SATA drives > > working, even if the OS turns out to be non-solaris, within the limits > > of most of the procured hardware. > > The LSI 9201 16i should work well as long as we're talking direct-attach > here. You're not running an expander here, I hope. > > Cheers, > -- > Saso > ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
