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

[Rich]

I'm on a Dell R710 and haven't seen any such issues.

Then again, I'm using a different controller than you are (PERC 6/i,
please don't ask me why).

- Rich

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:17 PM, Andy Lubel <alubel at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a feeling that my culprit here could be the disks: ST2000NM0001.
>  But its strange because again, everything works just fine in Solaris 10,
> but in OI/Sol11 I get the errors.
>
> I have tried muddling with
> stmsboot -d
> /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf
> /kernel/drv/mpt.conf
> /kernel/drv/mpt_sas.conf
>
> To no avail..  I'm working on getting new drives to try out, but it still
> leaves some questions as to why this would work in solaris 10 and not in
> the newer better IO/Sol11.  Any further ideas would really help!
>
> link to drives (dell branded, latest FW):
> http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?name=st2000nm0001-constellation-es-sas-6gbs-2-tb-hd&vgnextoid=22eb82388ec0e210VgnVCM1000001a48090aRCRD&locale=en-US&pf=1
>
> -Andy
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Andy Lubel <alubel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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