Going slightly askew on your original comment. I also purchased an Intel SASUC8I controller a couple months ago based on positive comments from the ZFS mailing list to attach (4) 2Tb Seagate drives to my home system. The best I ever got out of it was for it to be able to see (1) drive all the time, and a second one intermittently. It never saw drives 3 or 4. I finally gave up screwing around with it and am using an older/slower/lower performance HBA.
If you get something that works reliably, be it the IBM M1015, or something else, please post a summary. Jerry > Hello everyone, > > I have recently added an Intel SASUC8I controller to my home file > server, and hooked up eight Western Digital Red 3000GB disks to it. > > Only after I started filling up the new pool I noticed that the > capacity of the pool is not what I expected it to be. > And really: 'format' lists e. g. one of these disks as > c1t0d0 <ATA-WDC WD30EFRX-68A-0A80-2.00TB> On 01/20/13 09:56 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote: > > It indeed appears to be a hard limit of the LSI SAS 1068e chip, no newer > firmware appears to fix this issue (which is bizarre, but I suppose LSI > also knows how to force customers to upgrade). I suggest you pick up any > one of the widely available LSI SAS 2008-based cards out there - in > general, OEM cards tend to be cheaper than LSI-original ones, despite > running the same hardware and being reflashable to LSI firmware. See > http://www.servethehome.com/lsi-sas-2008-raid-controller-hba-information/ for > a list of suitable candidates. I personally prefer Dell's PERC H200 - > essentially a pure LSI 9211-8i, no reflashing needed, JBOD support and > runs like a champ under OI. > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
