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

[Scott O'Brien]

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/LSI-SAS3041E-4-Port-2-4Gb-s-SAS-SATA-PCI-E-Adapter-Card-/220770487345?pt=COMP_EN_Networking_Components&hash=item3366f24c31#ht_772wt_883

Just looking at it, it won't fit in the case with the big chunky drive bay in there.. I might have to go for the "ghetto" looping of the eSATA to SATA cable from outside of the case to back in again.  On the bright side it should have a little bit of money

On 04/06/2011, at 11:48 AM, Dan Swartzendruber wrote:

> 
> 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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