[OpenIndiana-discuss] SATA Expansion cards

[cjt]

On 01/31/2015 06:45 PM, Jerry Kemp wrote:
> I thought that SATA expansion cards were always bad news when used with
> Solaris, and Solaris based distro's.
>
> There are tons of horror stories out there, primarily thru the ZFS
> mailing list.
>
> Has this changed?
>
> Are there end users out there using SATA expansion cards with
> OpenIndiana, Solaris, etc. with positive and reliable results?
>
> Jerry
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FWIW, I have a server doing video streaming that has a multitude of 
Intel RES2SV240 expanders hanging off of LSI controllers, and have not 
experienced problems except when I first configured it and tried to have 
multiple layers of expander.  I don't recall what exactly the problem 
was (it was quite a while ago), but I no longer try to hang expanders 
off of other expanders.