[zfs-discuss] SAS HBA's with No Raid

2011-12-06 Thread Karl Rossing
Hi, I'm thinking of getting LSI 9212-4i4e(4 internal and 4 external ports) to replace a SUN Storagetek raid card. The StorageTek raid card seems to want to have it's drives initialized and volumes created on it before they are presented to zfs. I can't find a way of telling it just to be an

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS HBA's with No Raid

2011-12-06 Thread Krunal Desai
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 3:57 PM, Karl Rossing ka...@barobinson.com wrote: Hi, I'm thinking of getting LSI 9212-4i4e(4 internal and 4 external ports) to replace a SUN Storagetek raid card. Is it possible to disable the raid on an LSI 9212-4i4e and have the drives read by a simple sas/sata

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS HBA's with No Raid

2011-12-06 Thread Rocky Shek
To: ZFS filesystem discussion list Subject: [zfs-discuss] SAS HBA's with No Raid Hi, I'm thinking of getting LSI 9212-4i4e(4 internal and 4 external ports) to replace a SUN Storagetek raid card. The StorageTek raid card seems to want to have it's drives initialized and volumes created on it before

Re: [zfs-discuss] SAS HBA's with No Raid

2011-12-06 Thread Freddie Cash
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Karl Rossing ka...@barobinson.com wrote: I'm thinking of getting LSI 9212-4i4e(4 internal and 4 external ports) to replace a SUN Storagetek raid card. The StorageTek raid card seems to want to have it's drives initialized and volumes created on it before they