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

Fred Liu fred.fliu at gmail.com
Mon May 5 14:32:54 UTC 2014


Laurent Blume <laurent+oi at elanor.org>于2014年5月5日星期一写道:

> Le 2014/05/05 11:54 +0200, Fred Liu a écrit:
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>> 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.



> [Fred]: I also heard of this HBA. It has 4 ports as max and very limited
> bus bandwidth

               from point view of current days. The dirty bugs are in my
mind too.

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).


[Fred]: you have good luck! :-)


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