[OpenIndiana-discuss] Adaptec series 7

Tue Aug 13 17:55:56 UTC 2013

Grant,

I didn't use the older provided aac driver. The newer aac driver bundle from Adaptec has the 64-bit binary so you just disable the old aac and install the new one.

I suggest using the manufacturer's driver(s) and hardware - if directly supported by them.

~ Ken Mays

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 From: Grant Albitz <Grant at schultztechnology.com>
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Ken were you able to build the driver and install to the adaptec card or is the adaptec card just attached to storage pools?

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-----Original Message-----
From: ken mays [mailto:maybird1776 at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 12:12 PM
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Hi Grant,

The Adaptec aac driver in oi_151a8 supports up to the Adaptec 6xxx series.
The Adaptec 71605H works fine. My client has it in their video stream server.

I built it using AACRAID driver 7.2.0.30261.

~ Ken Mays

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From: Grant Albitz <Grant at schultztechnology.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 9:20 AM
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Noted but that's from 09-10, I haven't had any problems with the 5800 series or the current 7 series (on linux). I can probably dig up a story about most manufacturers and someone's bad experience with them. I am not saying the details of that story aren't pretty terrible though =). I am running 2 of the 24 port cards in a system with 48 ssds and performance is wonderful, I would just prefer to come back to OI from ubuntu when possible. 

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-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Adams [mailto:t12nslookup at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 9:13 AM
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Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Adaptec series 7

Adaptec aren't exactly renowned for their reliability:

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=125783114503531&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=126775051500581&w=2

On 13 August 2013 14:04, Grant Albitz <Grant at schultztechnology.com> wrote:

> I checked the HCL and saw that basically no adaptec cards are listed. 
> I was just wondering what it takes to really have an item moved onto 
> the HCL (short of the manufacturer releasing a driver of course). The 
> series 7 cards are nice in that they can support up to 24 devices in 
> hba mode without an expander. Adaptec did release solaris drivers but 
> they are so bad it is as if they didn't even test them. Also you 
> cannot boot from the adaptec series 7 under solaris according to the 
> release notes for the driver. I was just curious if the same would be 
> expected under OI if the drivers were ported over.
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