[OpenIndiana-discuss] [developer] HBA recommended except LSI and ARECA

[Laurent Blume]

Le 2014/05/05 11:54 +0200, Fred Liu a écrit:
> Just like what Bob mentioned, the current pmcs(7D) in illumos cannot work with 6H/7H
> series of HBAs. Even replaced with SAS drives, the effort is still in vain.
>
> Anyway, it looks like there is a very clear gap between commodity and enterprise market.
> I definitely understand it is because of different business model. LSI and ADAPTEC are
> enterprise-oriented. And so far I cannot find commodity-oriented(Marvell?) HBAs working in illumos.
> The on-board AHCI SATA interfaces are friends for individual/home users.

What about the Silicon Image ones? I used to have an Si3124, once the 
original dirty bugs were fixed in S10, it's been working well enough for me.

I've switched to using an LSI SAS card with the same consumer SATA 
drives, saved enough money and has been working well for me (still on S10).

Laurent