Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:26:08 +0100 From: Borja Marcos <borjam@sarenet.es> To: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> Cc: "freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-fs@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Controller for ZFS Message-ID: <3E00D7C0-68EE-4838-BD99-0BF2011DBC06@sarenet.es> In-Reply-To: <CAFHbX1J3zO44-KC=Os0bu=wBNoatm3LqUS3fSPjAbzh2OaxRWQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CEA907F4.12261%shawn.wallbridge@imaginaryforces.com> <49F719A9-AC50-4917-8809-F51EBD4F5D0F@sarenet.es> <CAFHbX1J3zO44-KC=Os0bu=wBNoatm3LqUS3fSPjAbzh2OaxRWQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Nov 14, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Tom Evans wrote: >> The only problem: beware if you are using a built-in backplane in the = server, some manufacturers insist on using different >> cabling schemes for different controllers and you could run into = stupid problems because of that. >>=20 >> FreeBSD 10 identifies one of my cards as this one: >> mps0: <LSI SAS2008> port 0x7c00-0x7cff mem = 0xd4ff0000-0xd4ffffff,0xd4f80000-0xd4fbffff irq 80 at device 0.0 on = pci67 >> mps0: Firmware: 07.15.08.00, Driver: 16.00.00.00-fbsd >=20 > This is quite old firmware, do you not have problems with this > (particularly large drives or SSDs)? I believe I am using 15, and the > latest is 16. No problems so far, 2013-08-12.13:02:13 zpool create cashopul raidz /dev/da0.nop = /dev/da1.nop /dev/da2.nop /dev/da3.nop /dev/da4.nop /dev/da5.nop borjam@pruebassd:/home/borjam % zpool status cashopul pool: cashopul state: ONLINE scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0h3m with 0 errors on Fri Sep 20 07:05:42 = 2013 config: NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM cashopul ONLINE 0 0 0 raidz1-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 da0 ONLINE 0 0 0 da1 ONLINE 0 0 0 da2 ONLINE 0 0 0 da3 ONLINE 0 0 0 da4 ONLINE 0 0 0 da5 ONLINE 0 0 0 errors: No known data errors Even though the disks are OCZ Vertex 4's root@pruebassd:/home/borjam # camcontrol devlist <DP BP12G+ 1.00> at scbus0 target 3 lun 0 (pass0,ses0) <ATA OCZ-VERTEX4 1.5> at scbus0 target 4 lun 0 (pass1,da0) <ATA OCZ-VERTEX4 1.5> at scbus0 target 5 lun 0 (pass2,da1) <ATA OCZ-VERTEX4 1.5> at scbus0 target 7 lun 0 (pass3,da2) <ATA OCZ-VERTEX4 1.5> at scbus0 target 9 lun 0 (pass4,da3) <ATA OCZ-VERTEX4 1.5> at scbus0 target 10 lun 0 (pass5,da4) <ATA OCZ-VERTEX4 1.5> at scbus0 target 11 lun 0 (pass6,da5) Of course, the slots assignment in the backplane becomes random.=20 Do you recommend more recent firmware versions, though? I was playing = with this for a while and it really was tiresome to be loading different firmware versions. Thanks, Borja.
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