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John D Groenveld
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PostPosted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:38 pm    Post subject: Re: 3rd party SATA support? Reply with quote

In article <gxi1g.33544$zf6.11594@fed1read08>,
Stuart Biggar <sbiggar@email.arizona.edu> wrote:
Quote:
http://www.areca.us/products/html/pcix-sata.htm

The LSI Logic SAS RAID controllers and SAS HBAs should work.

John
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Frank Cusack
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:39 pm    Post subject: Re: 3rd party SATA support? Reply with quote

On Sun, 25 Jun 2006 16:38:14 +0000 (UTC) groenvel@cse.psu.edu (John D Groenveld) wrote:
Quote:
In article <gxi1g.33544$zf6.11594@fed1read08>,
Stuart Biggar <sbiggar@email.arizona.edu> wrote:
http://www.areca.us/products/html/pcix-sata.htm

The LSI Logic SAS RAID controllers and SAS HBAs should work.

LSI explicitly does not support them on Solaris (anymore).

-frank
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John D Groenveld
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 26, 2006 6:00 pm    Post subject: Re: 3rd party SATA support? Reply with quote

In article <m2fyhrke9i.fsf@maguro.local>,
Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> wrote:
Quote:
LSI explicitly does not support them on Solaris (anymore).

I think they'll work with mpt(7D) and lsimega(7D).

John
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Frank Cusack
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:58 am    Post subject: Re: 3rd party SATA support? Reply with quote

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 18:00:30 +0000 (UTC) groenvel@cse.psu.edu (John D Groenveld) wrote:
Quote:
In article <m2fyhrke9i.fsf@maguro.local>,
Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> wrote:
LSI explicitly does not support them on Solaris (anymore).

I think they'll work with mpt(7D) and lsimega(7D).

Not up to S10U1. Haven't gotten U2 installed yet.

-frank
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John D Groenveld
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:14 am    Post subject: Re: 3rd party SATA support? Reply with quote

In article <m23bdr5s8h.fsf@maguro.local>,
Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> wrote:
Quote:
Not up to S10U1. Haven't gotten U2 installed yet.

I recall Al Hopper got LSI's SAS based MegaRAID controller working with
the *BSD based amr(7D). lsimega(7D) which I believe is the LSI/Sun
collaborative effort has been available on sun.com for months.

I believe mpt(7D) shipped with S10 FCS.

John
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Jaime
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 5:34 am    Post subject: Re: 3rd party SATA support? Reply with quote

John D Groenveld wrote:
Quote:
In article <m23bdr5s8h.fsf@maguro.local>,
Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> wrote:
Not up to S10U1. Haven't gotten U2 installed yet.

I recall Al Hopper got LSI's SAS based MegaRAID controller working with
the *BSD based amr(7D). lsimega(7D) which I believe is the LSI/Sun
collaborative effort has been available on sun.com for months.

I believe mpt(7D) shipped with S10 FCS.

John
groenveld@acm.org

I think what you clowns should finally admit to yourselves is that
support on x86 is just as dismal as it as has ever been -- since the
once venerable Sun can't even provide support for their own hardware --
and forget it.

Sun has hardware that no one wants (SPARC), hardware that doesn't work
correctly with their software (x86), and software that costs them more
than they earn (Java). It's over boys.
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John D Groenveld
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 12:55 pm    Post subject: Re: 3rd party SATA support? Reply with quote

In article <1151386441.925845.241140@c74g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
Jaime <jaime_macallistar@yahoo.com> wrote:
Quote:
Sun has hardware that no one wants (SPARC), hardware that doesn't work
correctly with their software (x86), and software that costs them more
than they earn (Java). It's over boys.

Sun's x86 based hardware works for me with Solaris.

On which Sun systems are you having problems running Solaris?

John
groenveld@acm.org
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Rich Teer
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 27, 2006 4:44 pm    Post subject: Re: 3rd party SATA support? Reply with quote

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Jaime wrote:

Quote:
Sun has hardware that no one wants (SPARC), hardware that doesn't work

Funny you should say that, troll. Sun's latest SPARC-based machines,
the T1000 and T2000 have been flying out of their doors as fast as they
can make 'em.

--
Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

President,
Rite Online Inc.

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Frank Cusack
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 12:50 am    Post subject: Re: 3rd party SATA support? Reply with quote

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:14:40 +0000 (UTC) groenvel@cse.psu.edu (John D Groenveld) wrote:
Quote:
In article <m23bdr5s8h.fsf@maguro.local>,
Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> wrote:
Not up to S10U1. Haven't gotten U2 installed yet.

I recall Al Hopper got LSI's SAS based MegaRAID controller working with
the *BSD based amr(7D). lsimega(7D) which I believe is the LSI/Sun
collaborative effort has been available on sun.com for months.

I believe mpt(7D) shipped with S10 FCS.

I'm not claiming that the drivers aren't there, I'm claiming that they
don't work. But I just meant for the HBAs, not the RAID. I'll be
using ZFS so I don't need or want the RAID controller.

The mpt driver that comes with S10 does not recognize the LSI SAS HBA.
I believe it only recognizes the onboard controller.

Luckily, LSI produces a single driver for all their cards so you can
find Solaris support for another card and it works, but the installer
is broken (you can get it manually installed; not TOO hard to figure
out) and LSI denies that the card is supported.

Not a good state of affairs.

Given that LSI produces a single driver for all cards, it sucks that
the Sun driver doesn't do likewise. I'd really like mpxio support
and the morons at LSI don't care that it's easy to do. The Sun driver
support mpxio but of course doesn't recognize the HBA. ugh.

Maybe the lsimega driver does support the plain HBA. I haven't
tried it.

-frank
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John D Groenveld
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 2:41 pm    Post subject: Re: 3rd party SATA support? Reply with quote

In article <m2psgu2jdj.fsf@maguro.local>,
Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> wrote:
Quote:
The mpt driver that comes with S10 does not recognize the LSI SAS HBA.
I believe it only recognizes the onboard controller.

Which LSI SAS HBAs don't work with mpt(7D)?

What happens when you try to add their vendor/device id's with
update_drv(1M)?

John
groenveld@acm.org
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Frank Cusack
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 2:53 am    Post subject: Re: 3rd party SATA support? Reply with quote

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:41:36 +0000 (UTC) groenvel@cse.psu.edu (John D Groenveld) wrote:
Quote:
In article <m2psgu2jdj.fsf@maguro.local>,
Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> wrote:
The mpt driver that comes with S10 does not recognize the LSI SAS HBA.
I believe it only recognizes the onboard controller.

Which LSI SAS HBAs don't work with mpt(7D)?

3442X, which is the only one I've tried. It looks like all the (non-RAID)
SAS HBAs are the same thing, just having different system interfaces
(PCIX or PCIE) and different SAS connectors (internal vs external).
So if the 3442X doesn't work, I don't expect the others to work.

Quote:
What happens when you try to add their vendor/device id's with
update_drv(1M)?

I wasn't aware of that command. I'll try it when I get the chance to
free up a system to try S10U2. (a week or so.)

-frank
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Frank Cusack
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:02 am    Post subject: Re: 3rd party SATA support? Reply with quote

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:53:09 -0700 Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> wrote:
Quote:
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:41:36 +0000 (UTC) groenvel@cse.psu.edu (John D Groenveld) wrote:
In article <m2psgu2jdj.fsf@maguro.local>,
Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> wrote:
The mpt driver that comes with S10 does not recognize the LSI SAS HBA.
I believe it only recognizes the onboard controller.

Which LSI SAS HBAs don't work with mpt(7D)?

3442X, which is the only one I've tried. It looks like all the (non-RAID)
SAS HBAs are the same thing, just having different system interfaces
(PCIX or PCIE) and different SAS connectors (internal vs external).
So if the 3442X doesn't work, I don't expect the others to work.

What happens when you try to add their vendor/device id's with
update_drv(1M)?

I wasn't aware of that command. I'll try it when I get the chance to
free up a system to try S10U2. (a week or so.)

BTW, the vendor and device ID (from prtconf -pv) is

vendor-id: 00001000
device-id: 00000054

I did 'ls -l' one on of the attached disks to find the device path, then
matched that up with the 'name' field from 'prtconf -pv'. Is there an
easier way to find this info? Like 'lspci' on Linux.

-frank
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John D Groenveld
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 3:32 am    Post subject: Re: 3rd party SATA support? Reply with quote

In article <m2u063e47m.fsf@maguro.local>,
Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> wrote:
Quote:
BTW, the vendor and device ID (from prtconf -pv) is

vendor-id: 00001000
device-id: 00000054

# update_drv -a -i '"pci1000,54"' mpt

Quote:
I did 'ls -l' one on of the attached disks to find the device path, then
matched that up with the 'name' field from 'prtconf -pv'. Is there an
easier way to find this info? Like 'lspci' on Linux.

I use Dan Mick's prtpci while others use /usr/X11/bin/scanpci.
<URL:http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/dmick/20050317#prtpci_digest_and_display_prtconf>

John
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Frank Cusack
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 06, 2006 7:55 pm    Post subject: Re: 3rd party SATA support? Reply with quote

On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 19:53:09 -0700 Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> wrote:
Quote:
On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 14:41:36 +0000 (UTC) groenvel@cse.psu.edu (John D Groenveld) wrote:
In article <m2psgu2jdj.fsf@maguro.local>,
Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com> wrote:
The mpt driver that comes with S10 does not recognize the LSI SAS HBA.
I believe it only recognizes the onboard controller.

Which LSI SAS HBAs don't work with mpt(7D)?

3442X, which is the only one I've tried. It looks like all the (non-RAID)
SAS HBAs are the same thing, just having different system interfaces
(PCIX or PCIE) and different SAS connectors (internal vs external).
So if the 3442X doesn't work, I don't expect the others to work.

What happens when you try to add their vendor/device id's with
update_drv(1M)?

I wasn't aware of that command. I'll try it when I get the chance to
free up a system to try S10U2. (a week or so.)

Didn't need to. It (a 3442E) worked out of the box with U2. I'm sure
the 3442X will work as well.

-frank
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