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

[Andy Lubel]

Yep just an r510 with an h200 and 10x 2tb unraided/ 2x raided internal 146gb drives. What drives are you using in the front?  Pure jbod with Zfs?

On Nov 22, 2011, at 17:03, Rich <rercola at acm.jhu.edu> wrote:

> 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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