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

[Andy Lubel]

FYI solaris 10 works great but I really need dedup.  Going to go crazy and
try to copy the kernel drivers from solaris 10 over to b151 and see what
happens.  Saw a great article stating that expanders were not supported in
solaris 11.. so i wonder how they work the j series and HBA cards that are
only 8 ports..

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Andy Lubel <alubel at gmail.com> wrote:

> So yeah an expander aka backplane in play here. What next?  I really don't
> want to abandon the effort to hopefully use the best distribution available
> for our needs.
>
> On Nov 18, 2011, at 16:22, "Jason J. W. Williams" <
> jasonjwwilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If you've only got 2 ports on the LSI card for 12 drives, then an
> expander
> > has to be in play.
> >
> > -J
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Andy Lubel <alubel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I'm betting there is an expander, it looks fancy and some enclosure
> device
> >> shows up in the lsi firmware as well as cfgadm output..  Its also dual
> >> ported (and I have tried unplugging one cable with no different
> behavior).
> >> I may or may not be able to test these drives in another system.. let me
> >> try some shuffling and I will report my findings.  I knew this R510 was
> >> going to be a challenge, but I didn't think for the backplane..
> >>
> >> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Jason J. W. Williams <
> >> jasonjwwilliams at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Andy Lubel <alubel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> IT firmware didn't work, same issue.  I am really leaning towards some
> >>> sort
> >>>> of enclosure problem (backplane) - any ideas how to troubleshoot that?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> Do the 2TB 2.5" drives work in other systems? Have you tried other
> drives
> >>> you might have lying around to narrow it down to just the 2TB drives?
> Are
> >>> there SAS expanders in the backplane?
> >>>
> >>> -J
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