On 08/24/2012 05:53 PM, Bryan N Iotti wrote: > Sorry to reopen an old post, but I have some questions I can't seem to > find an answer to myself... > > I recently caved in and bought an LSI 3041E-R HBA, which I reflashed to > Initiator Target firmware, the latest version available. I have my usual > two 2TB SATA drives attached directly via SATA. I have encountered > Illumos bug #1787 as described here: > https://www.illumos.org/issues/1787 > > Would installing a SAS-To-SATA interposer card on each disk clear this > error, or would it still act the same way? I mean, if I understand > right, this bug affect only SATA drives on SAS controllers.
My personal recommendation would be to always use interposers when using SATA disks in SAS environments. I have a Sun J4200 JBOD with twelve Sun-branded Seagate 1TB SATA disks (with interposers) and smartctl works just fine on these. > Should I just cave in once more and buy some SAS disks, if SMART is so > important to me? If you already have the drives, then interposers are cheaper, however, if you're buying new, then I recommend going straight for SAS drives. These are generally only around 10% more expensive and in all may be even cheaper than the SATA+interposer combo (though it depends on which tier of SATA drives you're buying, beware that there are massive differences between consumer-grade SATA and enterprise SATA drives). Cheers, -- Saso _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
