[zfs-discuss] Anyone with experience with a PCI-X SSD card?

2010-02-08 Thread Erik Trimble
I've a couple of older systems that are front-ending a large backup array. I'd like to put in a large L2ARC cache device for them to use with dedup.Right now, they only have Ultra320 SCA 3.5 hot-swap drive bays, and PCI-X slots. I haven't found any SSDs (or adapters) which might work

Re: [zfs-discuss] Anyone with experience with a PCI-X SSD card?

2010-02-08 Thread Thomas Burgess
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Erik Trimble erik.trim...@sun.com wrote: Erik Trimble wrote: I've a couple of older systems that are front-ending a large backup array. I'd like to put in a large L2ARC cache device for them to use with dedup. Right now, they only have Ultra320 SCA 3.5

Re: [zfs-discuss] Anyone with experience with a PCI-X SSD card?

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 07:33:56PM -0800, Erik Trimble wrote: To reply to myself, the best I can do is this: http://www.apricorn.com/product_detail.php?type=familyid=59 (it uses a sil3124 controller, so it /might/ work with OpenSolaris ) Nice. I'd certainly like to know if you try it

Re: [zfs-discuss] Anyone with experience with a PCI-X SSD card?

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel Carosone
On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 03:11:38PM +1100, Daniel Carosone wrote: I didn't find anything to indicate either way whether there was bootable bios on board Ah - in the install guide there's a mention about pressing F4 or Ctrl-S when prompted at boot to configure the raid format, so there's