[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana-discuss Digest, Vol 10, Issue 60

[Mark]

On 30/05/2011 9:28 p.m., Hans J. Albertsson wrote:
> Of course: just me being sloppy: I am looking for a card that runs off
> the fastest possible i/f on the X7BSi MB
>
> PCI-Express, absolutely.
>
>

Just be aware that a bad esata connection can bring down the server.
I crashed my oi bacula server a few weeks ago while writing to a 3 x 
esata disk set. The log was full of sata timeout issues on one port.



>> Message: 4
>> Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 17:53:25 +0200 (CEST)
>> From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk<roy at karlsbakk.net>
>> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
>> <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
>> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A good and reliable SATA PCI
>> interface for a Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148?
>> Message-ID:<3729368.6.1306684405848.JavaMail.root at zimbra>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
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>>>> Message: 2
>>>> Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 12:35:05 +0200 (CEST)
>>>> From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk<roy at karlsbakk.net>
>>>> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
>>>> <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A good and reliable SATA PCI
>>>> interface for a Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148?
>>>> Message-ID:<31113433.0.1306665305717.JavaMail.root at zimbra>
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>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone suggest a good and reliable eSATA PCI interface for a
>>>>> Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148? Preferably 4 or 6 eSATA ports
>>>>>
>>>>> To be used in a RaidZ2 config with 8 or 10 2TB relatively cheap
>>>>> disks.
>>>>> 4 connected to the MB SATA II ports, and 4 or 6 on the external.
>>>> Any particular reason for not using SAS with this? LSI 1068 work
>>>> well and are affordable if not cheap. They only support 3Gbps SAS,
>>>> but then, you probably won't need more. The LSI 1068E has external
>>>> connectors.
>>> An LSI 1068 is a chip, not a PCI card.
>> Sure, but there are several cheap boards using it.
>>
>> Btw, are you sure you want a PCI card, not a PCI Express card?
>>
>> Vennlige hilsener / Best regards
>>
>> roy
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>> Message: 5
>> Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 11:54:23 -0400
>> From: "Dan Swartzendruber"<dswartz at druber.com>
>> To: "'Discussion list for OpenIndiana'"
>> <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
>> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A good and reliable SATA PCI
>> interface for a Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148?
>> Message-ID:<6A370FAC738C4A9891687981F59E2794 at manticore>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk [mailto:roy at karlsbakk.net]
>> Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 11:53 AM
>> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
>> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A good and reliable SATA PCI interface
>> for a Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148?
>>
>>>> Message: 2
>>>> Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 12:35:05 +0200 (CEST)
>>>> From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk<roy at karlsbakk.net>
>>>> To: Discussion list for OpenIndiana
>>>> <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] A good and reliable SATA PCI
>>>> interface for a Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148?
>>>> Message-ID:<31113433.0.1306665305717.JavaMail.root at zimbra>
>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone suggest a good and reliable eSATA PCI interface for a
>>>>> Supermicro X7BSi MB and OI148? Preferably 4 or 6 eSATA ports
>>>>>
>>>>> To be used in a RaidZ2 config with 8 or 10 2TB relatively cheap
>>>>> disks.
>>>>> 4 connected to the MB SATA II ports, and 4 or 6 on the external.
>>>> Any particular reason for not using SAS with this? LSI 1068 work
>>>> well and are affordable if not cheap. They only support 3Gbps SAS,
>>>> but then, you probably won't need more. The LSI 1068E has external
>>>> connectors.
>>> An LSI 1068 is a chip, not a PCI card.
>> Sure, but there are several cheap boards using it.
>>
>> Btw, are you sure you want a PCI card, not a PCI Express card?
>>
>> *** Good point. It isn't hard to saturate the PCI bus nowadays...
>>
>>
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