Claus Guttesen wrote: > Hi. > > I've ordered an areca ARC-1680 sas-adapter and supermicro 3U storage > cabinet which can hold 16 sata-disks. The disks are WD RAID Edition 2 > GP - 1000GB (server-edition). This will be a jbod-storage. My plan is > to create one zpool and add disks in chunks of 10 disks in raidz2 and > allocate one hot-spare for each cabinet, Ie; two cabinets will have 3 > x 10 disks + 2 hotspares = 32 disks. > > The storage will grow to approx. 21 TB netto to start with and may > grow beyond that. The server that will hosts the storage is a HP DL380 > G5 16 GB ram and two dual-core woodcrests and a p400-onboard > controller. > > I can install solaris 10 (8/07) but will this zfs-version be stable enough? > > When installing solaris 10 I add the smart-array driver from HP during > install (press 5 'Apply driver updates' and choose cd/dvd and the > driver is loaded). I tried to install b79 but when I try the same > procedure it tells me that no drivers were loaded and hence the > installation cannot find any disks to install or upgrade. Is there is > a simple solution for this or should I ask the opensolaris-discuss > list instead?
ARC-1680 from Areca Technologies uses the "arcmsr" driver. You can download a version from their website. James C. McPherson -- Senior Kernel Software Engineer, Solaris Sun Microsystems http://blogs.sun.com/jmcp http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
