The problem with these controllers is they love being RAID cards. Hence the "start testing" approach - which can be flashed to itmpt mode without the RAID and actually work with larger drives. Not much fun running Solaris and skipping ZFS for a RAID controller; save that for the penguins!
On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, Richard Spindler wrote: > Perc H700? > > HCL: > > https://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/hcl/data/components/details/dell/sol_10_10_09/3197.html > > Fleabay: > > https://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Perc-H700-512MB-CACHE-PowerEdge-SAS-Raid-Controller-WITH-BATTERY/142636673683 > > On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 3:20 PM Andre van Eyssen <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> I took a bit of a peek around fleabay, but most of it was either offshore >> with painful shipping, insanely priced, some vintage LSI card that >> certainly won't cope with large drives or an Adaptec RAID controller with >> a Sun logo. Bah-humbug. >> >> I might just have to grab some large drives and test the LSI controllers I >> have under load to make sure they don't explode. >> >> On Tue, 31 Dec 2019, nathan wrote: >> >>> Heya Andre,I'd be inclined to get the Sun/orace branded ones off ebay... >>> they are pretty cheap if you snipe a good deal. I can say that the hp >>> p400/440 etc aren't much chop these days since HP stopped trying to >>> maintain any level of Solaris certification.As far as lsi vs anything >>> else, meh. There have been reports of some issues here and there, but >>> they were usually patch or firmware specific... mine go ok (though they >>> should... they are in things like x4270m2 / 7110 type >>> boxes.)Cheers, Nathan.Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. >> >>> -------- Original message --------From: Andre van Eyssen < >> [email protected]> Date: 31/12/19 2:42 pm (GMT+10:00) To: >> [email protected] Subject: [msosug] Solaris 11/x86 -- SAS >> controller recommendations? Does anyone care to recommend SAS controllers >> for Solaris 11 x86? I've been getting away with Dell PERC H310s in the >> past, but apparently there are some problems with dealing with larger SATA >> drives (e.g., 8TB).-- Andre van Eyssen. Phone: +61 417 >> 211 788mail: [email protected] http://andre.purplecow.orgAbout >> & Contact: >> http://www.purplecow.org/andre.html_______________________________________________msosug >> mailing [email protected]:// >> mexico.purplecow.org/m/listinfo/msosug >> >> -- >> Andre van Eyssen. Phone: +61 417 211 788 >> mail: [email protected] http://andre.purplecow.org >> About & Contact: http://www.purplecow.org/andre.html >> _______________________________________________ >> msosug mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mexico.purplecow.org/m/listinfo/msosug >> > > > -- Andre van Eyssen. Phone: +61 417 211 788 mail: [email protected] http://andre.purplecow.org About & Contact: http://www.purplecow.org/andre.html _______________________________________________ msosug mailing list [email protected] http://mexico.purplecow.org/m/listinfo/msosug
