Is 6805H/6405H(http://www.adaptec.com//en-us/products/series/6h/) worthy of recommendation too?
Thanks. Fred > -----Original Message----- > From: Keith Wesolowski [mailto:keith.wesolow...@joyent.com] > Sent: 星期四, 五月 01, 2014 0:29 > To: Fred Liu > Cc: develo...@lists.illumos.org > Subject: Re: [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 06:34:29AM -0700, Fred Liu via illumos- > developer wrote: > > > Sorry for the typo… > > > > From: Fred Liu > > Sent: 星期三, 四月 30, 2014 21:31 > > To: 'develo...@lists.illumos.org' > > Subject: HBA recommended except LSI and ARECO > > > > Hi, > > > > Any ideas will be highly appreciated! > > Well, since you've excluded two of the three HBA vendors, I'm not sure > why you're asking for ideas. The remaining player is PMC-Sierra, who > recently bought Adaptec and are now using that as a consumer-facing > brand for cards based on the ASICs they've made for years. > > I have not yet evaluated them in my lab, but I suspect that e.g. the > 7085H/7805H likely work with our pmcs(7D) driver. If so, I would > recommend giving this a close look (if not, we need to get in touch > with them and fix that); we used PMC-Sierra ASICs on a Sun-made board > when I was at Fishworks and I was reasonably pleased with the product. > At the time anyway, PMC was much better aligned with the ZFS-centric > storage architecture than LSI: less work being done in firmware, better > non-RAID options, superior error handling and telemetry, etc. I have > not seen LSI change their stance on this; they clearly remain committed > to selling people expensive HW RAID controllers with bloated firmware > stacks. Assuming this generation of PMC products is similar to the old, > you'll likely find them a better fit than the other vendors. > > See http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/products/series/7h/. > > I would not recommend any of the consumer-grade (pre-PMC) or HW RAID > based stuff from Adaptec. That stuff was trash, and I'm not sure any > of it works with illumos at all. _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss