[OpenIndiana-discuss] Hitachi 4 TB disks + HP Microserver + OI 151 + ZFS

[Enrico]

did a little research, just because i'm curious about this, my storage needs are 
much lower :)

they say 
(http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showpost.php?p=13963218&postcount=4727) that 
SB820M south-bridge on n40l has a limit of 3.2tb for hdd capacity. but there are 
no such details on the official specs:
support.amd.com/us/Embedded_TechDocs/47283.pdf
i hope this helps a bit

Best Regards,
Enrico
On 04/28/2012 08:39 PM, Enrico wrote:
> Hi roy,
> yes, right, it was just to tell Andy what I've tested with this hp system and
> OI. i think there are many people who have written in detail their experience
> about supported hdd sizes in forums easily reachable just by googling n40l. let
> me also correct what i've written before: the adaptec 1045/1405 are luckily
> supported by the aac driver, despite what is written on the man page. the si3124
> driver refers to a sata controller i've tested successfully on the pciex1 slot.
> Best regards,
> Enrico
>
> On 04/28/2012 06:13 PM, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
>> It probably won't help much. Any SATA controller should recognize the 4TB
>> drives, and the problem with the drives lying about sector sizes won't be any
>> better whatever controller you use.
>>
>> roy
>>
>> ----- Opprinnelig melding -----
>>> maybe this might help:
>>> http://www.adaptec.com/en-us/products/controllers/hardware/sas/entry/asc-1045/
>>> it is recognized on a n40l and it is supported by the si3124 driver
>>>
>>> On 04/28/2012 09:54 AM, andy thomas wrote:
>>>> For some time now I've successfully been using ZFS RAIDz pools made
>>>> up of 3 x 1
>>>> TB or 3 x 2 TB Western Digital Caviar Black disks in a HP
>>>> MicroServer N36L
>>>> running OI 148 or 151. I'm now thinking of using the newer HP N40L
>>>> microserver
>>>> with 3 x 4 TB disks (Hitachi DeskStart 7K4000) which have 4096 byte
>>>> sectors. Can
>>>> anyone foresee a problem with this?
>>>>
>>>> I plan to set up several of these storage servers in mirrored pairs
>>>> so I want to
>>>> make sure this will work before ordering anything.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance for any comments or advice,
>>>>
>>>> Andy
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------
>>>> Andy Thomas,
>>>> Time Domain Systems
>>>>
>>>> Tel: +44 (0)7866 556626
>>>> Fax: +44 (0)20 8372 2582
>>>> http://www.time-domain.co.uk
>>>
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