I am trying to set up OpenSolaris on a Dell 2950 III that has 8 SAS drives connected to a PERC 6/i card. I am wondering what the best way to configure the RAID in the BIOS for ZFS.
Part of the problem is there seems to be some confusion inside Dell as to what can be done with the card. Their tech support suggested making the 8 drives show up by making them 8 raid0 devices. I researched online to see if I could find anyone doing that and the only person I found indicated there were issues with needing to reboot the machine because the controller would take drives totally offline when there were problems. The sales rep I have been working with said the card can be configured with a "no-raid" option. I am not sure why tech support did not know about this (I spent a long time taking with them about if we could turn RAID off on the machine). I could not find anyone talking about running zfs on a system configured this way. I would like to hear if anyone is using ZFS with this card and how you set it up, and what, if any, issues you've had with that set up. Thanks -Kristin -- http://tomorrowisobsolete.blogspot.com & http://kamundse.blogspot.com http://flickr.com/photos/kamundse/
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