[OpenIndiana-discuss] Kind of stuffed up my build, any recommendations to fix?

[Dan Swartzendruber]

LSI SAS 3041E (4 internal - SATA)

I got one of these off ebay for $50 or so.

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott O'Brien [mailto:king.scott.2 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 9:28 PM
To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Kind of stuffed up my build,any
recommendations to fix?

G'Day Everyone,

I pretty much stuffed up my build.  I'm building in a Mini-ITX form factor
so was limited to parts when it came to the motherboard.  I ended up going
with a motherboard that had 4 SATA ports (two at 6 Gbit/s and the other two
at 3 Gbit/s)

These SATA ports were going to be used for my ZFS storage pool and I had
purchased another SDD drive for the OS and L2ARC.  As I was buying all my
gear from the same shop, I looked for a PCIe card that was ran by a
supported chipset.  Long story short I tried to use the RocketHybrid1220, a
6Gb/s controller for the SSD, but the installer didn't see the drive and
doing an iostat -En failed to display it.  Going into the controllers BIOS,
it looks like I need to configure a hybrid array before it will give any
disk I/O to the OS (darn hey :P)

http://www.techbuy.com.au/p/168150/HARD_DISK_CONTROLLERS_SERIAL_ATA_CONTROLL
ERS/HighPoint/RocketHybrid1220.asp

So my questions are as follows:
  * Would plugging the SSD into one of the 6Gbit/s ports for the OS, then
using an eSATA to SATA cable to connect up one of the internal drives up for
the array be a good idea (it's certainly the cheapest!)?
  * If using eSATA on my ZFS pool is a bad idea, and I should be replacing
the PCIe SATA controller with something that will work? (Can someone link me
to an exact item?  Not a chipset, I've not had the best luck with choosing
parts like that :P)
  * Who (in Australia) wants to buy a cheap RocketHybrid 1220 controller? :P

Cheers,
Scotty O
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