Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for new SATA/SAS HBA; JBOD is not always JBOD

2009-01-09 Thread Dale Ghent
On Jan 9, 2009, at 9:28 AM, Erik Trimble wrote: > I'm pretty darned sure that the LSI 1068-based HBAs will do "true" > JBOD. Indeed they do, and the mpt driver works fine with these cards. /dale ___ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for new SATA/SAS HBA; JBOD is not always JBOD

2009-01-09 Thread JZ
safe for your baby silo data management approach...] ;-) best, z - Original Message - From: "Richard Elling" To: "Brandon High" Cc: Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 4:23 PM Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for new SATA/SAS HBA;JBOD is not always JBOD > Brando

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for new SATA/SAS HBA; JBOD is not always JBOD

2009-01-09 Thread Richard Elling
Brandon High wrote: > On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Carson Gaspar wrote: > >> On 1/9/2009 8:21 AM, Will Murnane wrote: >> >> >>> You might consider a case with a SAS expander in it; you can plug sata >>> >> Except Solaris still lacks support for port expanders, or did last I >> ch

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for new SATA/SAS HBA; JBOD is not always JBOD

2009-01-09 Thread Brandon High
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Carson Gaspar wrote: > On 1/9/2009 8:21 AM, Will Murnane wrote: > >> You might consider a case with a SAS expander in it; you can plug sata > > Except Solaris still lacks support for port expanders, or did last I > checked. Has this changed? A SAS expander is diffe

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for new SATA/SAS HBA; JBOD is not always JBOD

2009-01-09 Thread Carson Gaspar
On 1/9/2009 8:21 AM, Will Murnane wrote: > You might consider a case with a SAS expander in it; you can plug sata Except Solaris still lacks support for port expanders, or did last I checked. Has this changed? -- Carson ___ zfs-discuss mailing list z

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for new SATA/SAS HBA; JBOD is not always JBOD

2009-01-09 Thread Will Murnane
On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 09:28, Erik Trimble wrote: > I'm pretty darned sure that the LSI 1068-based HBAs will do "true" > JBOD. Supermicro makes two such beasts: AOC-USAS-L8i and > AOC-USASLP-L8i Both are 8-port PCI-Express x4 cards. No, both are UIO cards. They're compatible with PCI expre

Re: [zfs-discuss] Looking for new SATA/SAS HBA; JBOD is not always JBOD

2009-01-09 Thread Erik Trimble
I'm pretty darned sure that the LSI 1068-based HBAs will do "true" JBOD. Supermicro makes two such beasts: AOC-USAS-L8i and AOC-USASLP-L8i Both are 8-port PCI-Express x4 cards. The "low-cost" LSI SATA HBAs should also give you what you want. E.g. LSISAS3081E-R These use the same fa

[zfs-discuss] Looking for new SATA/SAS HBA; JBOD is not always JBOD

2009-01-09 Thread Pål Baltzersen
Why do they throw these fancy RAID-controllers at us when we have plenty CPU force to do zfs mirror and even raidz1 and raidz2? I have 12 SATA disks and would like to prepare to add 12 new internal SATA disks to my home server. The cabinet (Lian Li Modular Cube http://www.microplex.no/aspx/prod