http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/LSI-SAS3041E-4-Port-2-4Gb-s-SAS-SATA-PCI-E-Adapter-Card-/220770487345?pt=COMP_EN_Networking_Components&hash=item3366f24c31#ht_772wt_883
Just looking at it, it won't fit in the case with the big chunky drive bay in there.. I might have to go for the "ghetto" looping of the eSATA to SATA cable from outside of the case to back in again. On the bright side it should have a little bit of money On 04/06/2011, at 11:48 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote: > > LSI SAS 3041E (4 internal - SATA) > > I got one of these off ebay for $50 or so. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott O'Brien [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 9:28 PM > To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana > Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Kind of stuffed up my build,any > recommendations to fix? > > G'Day Everyone, > > I pretty much stuffed up my build. I'm building in a Mini-ITX form factor > so was limited to parts when it came to the motherboard. I ended up going > with a motherboard that had 4 SATA ports (two at 6 Gbit/s and the other two > at 3 Gbit/s) > > These SATA ports were going to be used for my ZFS storage pool and I had > purchased another SDD drive for the OS and L2ARC. As I was buying all my > gear from the same shop, I looked for a PCIe card that was ran by a > supported chipset. Long story short I tried to use the RocketHybrid1220, a > 6Gb/s controller for the SSD, but the installer didn't see the drive and > doing an iostat -En failed to display it. Going into the controllers BIOS, > it looks like I need to configure a hybrid array before it will give any > disk I/O to the OS (darn hey :P) > > http://www.techbuy.com.au/p/168150/HARD_DISK_CONTROLLERS_SERIAL_ATA_CONTROLL > ERS/HighPoint/RocketHybrid1220.asp > > So my questions are as follows: > * Would plugging the SSD into one of the 6Gbit/s ports for the OS, then > using an eSATA to SATA cable to connect up one of the internal drives up for > the array be a good idea (it's certainly the cheapest!)? > * If using eSATA on my ZFS pool is a bad idea, and I should be replacing > the PCIe SATA controller with something that will work? (Can someone link me > to an exact item? Not a chipset, I've not had the best luck with choosing > parts like that :P) > * Who (in Australia) wants to buy a cheap RocketHybrid 1220 controller? :P > > Cheers, > Scotty O > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
