Re: [zfs-discuss] Enhance 1U eSATA storage device and Solaris 10?

2007-01-21 Thread mike
I would like to see more support for PCIe or PCI-X adapters that support eSATA port multipliers. i.e. as far as Enhance goes, it looks like this is a comprable product: http://www.enhance-tech.com/products/diskarrays/R4_PM_inter.html Actually support for the Sonnet Tempo E4P or X4P (either one,

[zfs-discuss] Enhance 1U eSATA storage device and Solaris 10?

2007-01-21 Thread Moazam Raja
Hi all, I'm thinking of using an Enhance 1U R4 SA eSATA storage device with my Solaris 10 based Sun X2100 box. Has anyone used this before and have any experiences you could share? The device starts at about $450. http://www.enhance-tech.com/products/diskarrays/R4SA.html Thanks. -M __

Re: [zfs-discuss] External drive enclosures + Sun Server for mass storage

2007-01-21 Thread James C. McPherson
Al Hopper wrote: On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, James C. McPherson wrote: ... snip Would you please expand upon this, because I'm really interested in what your thoughts are. since I work on Sun's SAS driver :) Hi James - just the man I have a couple of questions for... :) Will the LsiLogic 3041

Re: [zfs-discuss] External drive enclosures + Sun Server for mass storage

2007-01-21 Thread Al Hopper
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, James C. McPherson wrote: ... snip > Would you please expand upon this, because I'm really interested > in what your thoughts are. since I work on Sun's SAS driver :) Hi James - just the man I have a couple of questions for... :) Will the LsiLogic 3041E-R (4-port in

Re: [zfs-discuss] External drive enclosures + Sun Server for mass storage

2007-01-21 Thread Casper . Dik
>What I gather from this is that today, SATA drives will either look like IDE >drives or SCSI drives, to some extent. When they look like IDE drives, you >don't get all of the cfgadm or luxadm management options and you have to do >thinks like hot plug in a more-rather-than-less manual mode. When

Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: External drive enclosures + Sun Server for massstorage

2007-01-21 Thread Casper . Dik
>That said, this definition is not always used consistently, as is the case >with the x2100. I filed a bug against the docs in this case, and unfortunately >it was closed as "will not fix." :-( In the context of a hardware platform it makes little sense to distinguish between hot-plug and hot-s

Re: [zfs-discuss] External drive enclosures + Sun Server for mass storage

2007-01-21 Thread James C. McPherson
Frank Cusack wrote: On January 19, 2007 5:59:13 PM -0800 "David J. Orman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: card that supports SAS would be *ideal*, Except that SAS support on Solaris is not very good. One major problem is they treat it like scsi when instead they should treat it like FC (or native S