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
