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

[Rich]

Dell Rx10 works fine for me on S11. This is just the drives on the
front, not an external MD1200 or similar, right?

- Rich

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Andy Lubel <alubel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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