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

[Geoff Flarity]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Andy Lubel <alubel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yeah, and you are probably exporting each disk as a raid 0, pseudo jbod
> with some BBC.. I suppose that's an option for us but it
> really shouldn't be that way.  The H200 can only create 2 raid disks
> anyways.
>
> Is there any other lists that may be of help?
>

You might try the Illumos mailing list. I'm sure there's some nexenta
people watching that one.

Eventually I'm going to try to install OI on an R410. I figure worst
case, maybe buy a different controller card?



> On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Rich <rercola at acm.jhu.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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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