[OpenIndiana-discuss] Which DELL controler voor Openindiana

Rich rercola at acm.jhu.edu
Mon Jul 2 19:48:24 UTC 2012


I mean, I'm perfectly capable of compiling my own mr_sas or doing an
update_drv, the only reason I don't offer more concrete data is that I
have no 12G Dell servers with an Hx10 around to play with.

- Rich

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Sašo Kiselkov <skiselkov.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 07/02/2012 08:32 PM, Rich wrote:
>> Is there a reason that just adding the PCI ID to mr_sas won't do anything sane?
>>
>> [I don't disagree re: IT FW + ZFS RAID versus hardware raid, just wondering.]
>
> That *might* be all that's needed, but I'm not sure if it's really all
> that simple. Judging from Robert Mustacchi's comments on the linked
> thread, I suspect it's going to be a bit more involved than that:
>
> "There is no card that currently works with it. Ideally, support would
> be added to mr_sas for it (as Oracle did), but realistically, if someone
> wants to support it they should port the FreeBSD mfi driver for it."
>
> If you're willing to test it, I can try and compile a new mr_sas driver
> which has the card in the support list (need to find it first, though...).
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Saso



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