On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:26 PM, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Joe Little <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:17 PM, Peeyush Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Hey guys, please excuse me in advance if I say or ask anything stupid >> >> :) >> >> >> >> Anyway, Solaris newbie here. I've built for myself a new file server >> >> to >> >> use at home, in which I'm planning on configuring SXCE-89 & ZFS. It's >> >> a >> >> Supermicro C2SBX motherboard with a Core2Duo & 4GB DDR3. I have >> >> 6x750GB >> >> SATA drives in it connected to the onboard ICH9-R controller (with BIOS >> >> RAID >> >> disabled & AHCI enabled). I also have a 160GB SATA drive connected to >> >> a PCI >> >> SIIG SC-SA0012-S1 controller, the drive which will be used as the >> >> system >> >> drive. My plan is to configure a RAID-Z2 pool on the 6x750 drives. >> >> The >> >> system drive is just there for Solaris. I'm also out of ports to use >> >> on the >> >> motherboard, hence why I'm using an add-in PCI SATA controller. >> >> >> >> My problem is that Solaris is not recognizing the system drive during >> >> the >> >> DVD install procedure. It sees the 6x750GB onboard drives fine. I >> >> originally used a RocketRAID 1720 SATA controller, which uses its own >> >> HighPoint chipset I believe, and it was a no-go. I went and exchanged >> >> that >> >> controller for a SIIG SC-SA0012-S1 controller, which I thought used a >> >> Silicon Integrated (SII) chipset. The install DVD isn't recognizing it >> >> unfortunatly, & now I'm not so sure that it uses a SII chipset. I >> >> checked >> >> the HCL, and it only lists a few cards that are reported to work under >> >> SXCE. >> >> >> >> If anyone has any suggestions on either... >> >> A) Using a different driver during the install procedure, or... >> >> B) A different, cheap SATA controller >> >> >> >> I'd appreciate it very much. Sorry for the rambling post, but I wanted >> >> to >> >> be detailed from the get-go. Thanks for any input! :) >> >> >> >> PS. On a side note, I'm interested in playing around with SXCE >> >> development. It looks interesting :) >> >> >> >> >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> zfs-discuss mailing list >> >> zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org >> >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss >> > >> > >> > I'm still a fan of the marvell based supermicro card. I run two of them >> > in >> > my fileserver. AOC-SAT2-MV8 >> > >> > http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-SAT2-MV8.cfm >> > >> >> I gave treatment to this question a few days ago. Yes, if you want >> PCI-X, go with the Marvell. If you want PCIe SATA, then its either a >> SIIG produced Si3124 card or a lot of guessing. I think the real >> winner is going to be the newer SAS/SATA mixed HBAs from LSI based on >> the 1068 chipset, which Sun has been supporting well in newer >> hardware. >> >> >> http://jmlittle.blogspot.com/2008/06/recommended-disk-controllers-for-zfs.html > > **pci or pci-x. Yes, you might see *SOME* loss in speed from a pci > interface, but let's be honest, there aren't a whole lot of users on this > list that have the infrastructure to use greater than 100MB/sec who are > asking this sort of question. A PCI bus should have no issues pushing that. > > >> >> >> Equally important, don't mix SATA-I and SATA-II on that system >> motherboard, or on one of those add-on cards. >> >> http://jmlittle.blogspot.com/2008/05/mixing-sata-dos-and-donts.html >> > > I mix SATA-I and SATA-II and haven't had any issues to date. Unless you > have an official bug logged/linked, that's as good as a wives tail.
No bug to report, but it was one of the issues with losing my log device a bit ago. ZFS engineers appear to be aware of it. Among other things, its why there is a known work around to disable command queueing (NCQ) on the marvell card when SATA-I drives are attached to it. > > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
