[OpenIndiana-discuss] Not what I expected updating from 151_9 to latest hipster

[Nikola M]

On 03/22/17 07:40 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
> So, I've ordered 2 new 160 gb sata wd diskcs ($16 per disc) to avoid
> possible problems with boot loader mayhem using my current discs.  And
> also since I was warned off using IDE which my current discs are.

Also notice that SATA disks working in actual SATA mode and not in ATA 
mode type of disk access,
depend also on motherboard settings (does BIOS aces mode to disk is set 
to SATA or ATA/legacy),
and of what Southbridge/Chipset hard disk controller type is and it's 
support in illumos.
For example, I have older motherboard with intel ICH7 
southbridge/controller and using it's SATA ports, under illumos I get 
disk working in ATA mode, and that is per ICH7/illumos.

Also, Benefit of ZFS is that , if using JBOD (Just of bunch of disks) hd 
controller mode, one can easily change controllers, change machines or 
even change architectures (SPARC/x86, endian-agnostic) with same disks 
and have the same data pool available and working on other machine (so 
no vendor lock-in for proprietary SATA/SAS hardware RAID controllers).
Propietary hardware RAID card vendors, seldom lack 'JBOD' feature on 
cheap controllers, for their reasons and partially because they want to 
enforce vendor lock-in and force people from buying the same replacement 
controller cards..
With JBOD/ OpenZFS one does not depend on hardware anymore :)