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 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 same ASIC I have direct > exper

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

2014-04-30 Thread Fred Liu
Keith Wesolowski 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 try. Does it work

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

2014-05-04 Thread Schweiss, Chip
The place that good SATA support is needed it not for spinning disk, but for SSD. The price delta is huge and even consumer grade SSDs are ideal for L2ARC. -Chip On May 4, 2014 4:43 AM, "Fred Liu" wrote: > > [fred]:ok. Let's see how it goes after I get the hba. > > [fred]: I have got 6805H HBA

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: [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 market.

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

2014-05-05 Thread Fred Liu
Laurent Blume 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 a very c

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 n

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

2014-05-05 Thread Fred Liu
Laurent Blume 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 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 sure the 6-series

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 recommen

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: http://www.costcentral.com/prod

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 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

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

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

2014-05-20 Thread Discussion list for OpenIndiana
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:30:13PM +0800, Zhiwen Zheng wrote: > I tried to add suport for adaptec 6805H following the linux pm8001 driver. Before I read the patch, I need to know whether you cut and pasted even a single line of code from the Linux driver. In general, you really want to do work l

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

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