[OpenIndiana-discuss] Harddisk > 2TB

[Jerry Kemp]

Going slightly askew on your original comment.

I also purchased an Intel SASUC8I controller a couple months ago based
on positive comments from the ZFS mailing list to attach (4) 2Tb Seagate
drives to my home system.  The best I ever got out of it was for it to
be able to see (1) drive all the time, and a second one intermittently.
 It never saw drives 3 or 4.  I finally gave up screwing around with it
and am using an older/slower/lower performance HBA.

If you get something that works reliably, be it the IBM M1015, or
something else, please post a summary.

Jerry



> Hello everyone,
> 
> I have recently added an Intel SASUC8I controller to my home file
> server, and hooked up eight Western Digital Red 3000GB disks to it. 
> 
> Only after I started filling up the new pool I noticed that the
> capacity of the pool is not what I expected it to be.
> And really: 'format' lists e. g. one of these disks as
>   c1t0d0 <ATA-WDC WD30EFRX-68A-0A80-2.00TB>


On 01/20/13 09:56 AM, Sašo Kiselkov wrote:

> 
> It indeed appears to be a hard limit of the LSI SAS 1068e chip, no newer
> firmware appears to fix this issue (which is bizarre, but I suppose LSI
> also knows how to force customers to upgrade). I suggest you pick up any
> one of the widely available LSI SAS 2008-based cards out there - in
> general, OEM cards tend to be cheaper than LSI-original ones, despite
> running the same hardware and being reflashable to LSI firmware. See
> http://www.servethehome.com/lsi-sas-2008-raid-controller-hba-information/ for
> a list of suitable candidates. I personally prefer Dell's PERC H200 -
> essentially a pure LSI 9211-8i, no reflashing needed, JBOD support and
> runs like a champ under OI.
>