[OpenIndiana-discuss] Dell R510 SAS2 Backplane with SAS2008 (PERC H200)

[Rich]

1) Last I heard, Dell EoL'd Solaris support for any but custom support
contracts.

2) Dell reverted the non-Dell lockout on their card firmwares after
there was an enormous backlash.

- Rich

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:27 PM, James C. McPherson
<james.c.mcpherson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On  2/12/11 09:52 AM, Andy Lubel wrote:
>>
>> It's 100% Dell at this point. I haven't called them because I'm
>> guessing they don't speak Solaris and I can't reproduce the behavior
>> on any of the supported OS'. I'll try nonetheless and see what
>> happens.
>>
>> Rather than return the drives/system I was thinking of getting the
>> h700i and just doing jbod or single disk raid0 volumes. Again not my
>> favorite but this is about the 8th straight day I've been fighting
>> this.
>>
>> Thanks so far for your ideas and input. When troubleshooting things
>> like this it's really helpful!
>
>
> Actually, Sun/Oracle and Dell have engineers co-located for
> Solaris development and support. If you're not getting a clueful
> response then you should escalate.
>
>
>
> James C. McPherson
> --
> Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter
>              http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
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>
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