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

[Andy Lubel]

Yeah dell support was great, they twiddled their thumbs then put me on the phone with a sales guy and at that point I just decided to order a h700i. All this fear and uncertainty regarding hard drive shortages puts my delivery date at risk (I would have rather switched to Sata). If it doesn't work out I'm just going to return the whole box and build my own and mimic the hardware on a 7000/J series platform. 

The drives just aren't powering up but are visible and the data in the logs yields nothing for me to troubleshoot further. I do find it strange that Solaris 10 works fine though. 

I will update this thread with my findings on the h700i and sas2. 

On Dec 2, 2011, at 7:09, Rich <rercola at acm.jhu.edu> wrote:

> 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
>> Find me on LinkedIn @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescmcpherson
>> 
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