Hello James, Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 1:06:22 PM, you wrote:
JCM> Robert Milkowski wrote: >> Hello Louwtjie, >> >> Monday, June 4, 2007, 9:14:26 AM, you wrote: >> >> LB> On 5/30/07, James C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Louwtjie Burger wrote: >>>>> I know the above mentioned kit (2530) is new, but has anybody tried a >>>>> direct attached SAS setup using zfs? (and the Sun SG-XPCIESAS-E-Z >>>>> card, 3Gb PCI-E SAS 8-Port Host Adapter, RoHS:Y - which is the >>>>> prefered HBA I suppose) >>>>> Did it work correctly? >>>> Yes, it was tested as part of our project to add support to >>>> mpt for MPxIO. The zfs test suite was one of the required >>>> tests in our suite. >>>> >>>> Yes, it worked correctly. >> >> LB> Just to confirm... you connected a Galaxy AMD server to a 2530JBOD, >> LB> using the SAS controller from Sun... you could see the SAS/SATA disks >> LB> (without a proper 2530 controller unit)? >> >> Can someone confirm it (that connecting 2530 expansion tray/JBOD >> directly to Solaris x86 using SAS cards + MPxIO works)? JCM> Hi all, JCM> sorry for the late response (buying a house turns out JCM> to be a stressful thing!) JCM> Yes, my team's test plan did include ST2530 array attached JCM> to SAS hba. But there's 2530 with RAID controller and SAS external ports. To clarify I was asking about expansion trays without any RAID controllers - just 2530 jbod attached with dual links to a host + MPxIO. Can you confirm you did such tests and it works? Sorry.. but I would like to confirm it before buying. JCM> As far as I understand it, I do not think that a plain JCM> jbod version of the ST2530 is supported. I believe that JCM> a jbod attached to the ST2540 (fc-connected) is supported. If it works it doesn't have to be supported. But imho it should be. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
