I have seen some drives not be recognized on a hot plug, but cfgadm seemed to always fix that.
I don't recall a cold boot not recognizing the drives. Does the bios boot of the card show all of the drives connected? I did not update the firmware in the cards that I bought. Gregg On Nov 19, 2012, at 10:45 AM, Jerry Kemp <sun.mail.lis...@oryx.cc> wrote: > Hello Gregg, > > I acquired one of these > > Intel RAID Controller Card SATA/SAS PCI-E x8 8internal ports (SASUC8I) > > from your newegg link below, and then acquired the necessary cables to > get everything hooked up. After multiple executions of devfsadm and > reconfigure boots, the OS see's one of my 4 drives. The drives are 2 TB > Seagate drives. > > Did you need to do anything special to get your card to work correctly? > Did you need to do a firmware upgrade or anything? > > I am running an up-to-date version of OpenIndiana b151a7. > > Thank you, > > Jerry > > > > > On 10/26/12 10:02 AM, Gregg Wonderly wrote: >> I've been using this card >> >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816117157 >> >> for my Solaris/Open Indiana installations because it has 8 ports. One of >> the issues that this card seems to have, is that certain failures can cause >> other secondary problems in other drives on the same SAS connector. I use >> mirrors for my storage machines with 4 pairs, and just put half the mirror >> on one side and the other drive on the other side. This, in general, has >> solved my problems. When a drive fails, I might see more than one drive no >> functioning. I can remove (I use hot swap bays such as >> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817994097) a drive, >> and restore the other to the pool to find which of the failed drives is >> actually the problem. What had happened before, was that my case was not >> moving enough air, and the hot drives had caused odd problems with failure. >> >> For the money, and the experience I have with these controllers, I'd still >> use them, they are 3GBs controllers. If you want 6GBs controllers, then >> some of the other suggestions might be a better choice for you. >> >> Gregg >> > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
