Re: SAS 6/iR as SAS/SATA only controller

2010-12-07 Thread Nathan Hruby
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Eric Rostetter wrote: > Quoting Nathan Hruby : > >> Is this configuration supported? > > No idea.  But try turning of SMART if you have it on.  Also you might > want to check for firmware upgrades. > > We've had some problems where SMART checks were tripping SAS dr

Re: SAS 6/iR as SAS/SATA only controller

2010-12-07 Thread Eric Rostetter
Quoting Nathan Hruby : > Is this configuration supported? No idea. But try turning of SMART if you have it on. Also you might want to check for firmware upgrades. We've had some problems where SMART checks were tripping SAS drives off-line. Doing a "/sbin/chkconfig smartd off" "fixed" the issu

SAS 6/iR as SAS/SATA only controller

2010-12-07 Thread Nathan Hruby
Hi! I have a number of Dell R410's with SAS 6/iR controllers running CentOS 5.5. These controllers are setup with no arrays on them -- we are using the controllers as simple SAS controllers for a specialized filesystem application. In this config the controller presents 4 disks to the system as