Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-14 Thread valrh...@gmail.com
Thanks for all of the help. I now have the Asus U3S6 installed. There are two SATA ports on the board, and I've plugged one into the CD-ROM drive, and the other for my SSD being used as an L2ARC. Upon booting the machine, I get the message: Marvell 88SE91xx Adapter, BIOS version 0.0.1012 It

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-12 Thread Vladimir Kotal
Brandon High wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Vladimir Kotal vladimir.ko...@sun.com mailto:vladimir.ko...@sun.com wrote: Could you be more specific about the problems with 88SE9123, especially with SATA ? I am in the process of setting up a system with AD2SA6GPX1 HBA based on

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-12 Thread Matt Urbanowski
Well, it is good to hear that there likely isn't a patent problem with the SATA functionality of the card. Hopefully the filed bug will be addressed, and support added to the AHCI driver. On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 2:43 AM, Vladimir Kotal vladimir.ko...@sun.comwrote: Brandon High wrote: On

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-10 Thread Marc Bevand
Graham McArdle graham.mcardle at ccfe.ac.uk writes: This thread from Marc Bevand and his blog linked therein might have some useful alternative suggestions. http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=480925 I've bookmarked it because it's quite a handy summary and I hope he keeps

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-09 Thread Vladimir Kotal
On 07/ 9/10 09:58 AM, Brandon High wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:42 AM, James Van Artsdalen james-opensola...@jrv.org wrote: If these 6 Gb/s controllers are based on the Marvell part I would test them thoroughly before deployment - those chips have been problematic. The Marvell 88SE9123

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-09 Thread Matt Urbanowski
My advice would be to NOT use the AD2SA6GPX1 HBA for building an opensolaris storage box. Although the AHCI driver will load, the drives are not visible to the OS, and device configuration fails according to 'cfgadm -al'. I have a couple of them that are now residing in a linux box as I was

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-09 Thread Brandon High
On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Vladimir Kotal vladimir.ko...@sun.comwrote: Could you be more specific about the problems with 88SE9123, especially with SATA ? I am in the process of setting up a system with AD2SA6GPX1 HBA based on this chipset (at least according to the product pages [*]).

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-09 Thread Matt Urbanowski
Agreed! I'm not sure why Addonics is selling them, given the history of problems. At any rate, I'm glad that I didn't pay anything for the 3 three that I have. On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Brandon High bh...@freaks.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 2:40 AM, Vladimir Kotal

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-09 Thread Graham McArdle
This thread from Marc Bevand and his blog linked therein might have some useful alternative suggestions. http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=480925 I've bookmarked it because it's quite a handy summary and I hope he keeps updating it with new info -- This message posted from

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-08 Thread Brandon High
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 3:52 PM, valrh...@gmail.com valrh...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have an opinion, or some experience? Thanks in advance! Both of them support AHCI, so they should work for SATA 6G. The USB3.0 and PATA may not work however. -B -- Brandon High : bh...@freaks.com

Re: [zfs-discuss] SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-08 Thread valrh...@gmail.com
Thanks! I just need the SATA part for the SSD serving as my L2ARC. Could care less about PATA, and have no USB3 peripherals, anyway. I'll let everyone know how it works! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ zfs-discuss mailing list

[zfs-discuss] SATA 6G controller for OSOL

2010-07-07 Thread valrh...@gmail.com
I'm wanting to fire up a new SSD for an L2ARC on a ZFS box I've put together, and was looking at some of the new drives. Many of the faster ones, with great read speeds, are SATA-6G compatible, and I'm wondering if any of you has gotten these cards to work. In particular, the Asus U3S6: