From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 7 15:46:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DFD3106567F for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:46:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from morganw@chemikals.org) Received: from cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com (cdptpa-omtalb.mail.rr.com [75.180.132.120]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F209A8FC1E for ; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:46:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from morganw@chemikals.org) Received: from shop.chemikals.org ([75.182.7.127]) by cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20080807154621.DRHV15817.cdptpa-omta02.mail.rr.com@shop.chemikals.org>; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 15:46:21 +0000 Received: from volatile.chemikals.org (root@r74-193-170-223.bssrcmta01.bscyla.by.dh.suddenlink.net [74.193.170.223] (may be forged)) by shop.chemikals.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m77FkJEP003687; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 11:46:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from morganw@chemikals.org) Received: from localhost (morganw@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by volatile.chemikals.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m77FkCVG063821; Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:46:18 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from morganw@chemikals.org) Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 10:46:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Wes Morgan To: Adam McDougall In-Reply-To: <489A2E1F.6000405@egr.msu.edu> Message-ID: References: <18585.3903.895425.122613@almost.alerce.com> <200808061928.37001.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> <489A2E1F.6000405@egr.msu.edu> User-Agent: Alpine 1.10 (BSF 962 2008-03-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS Advice X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:46:22 -0000 On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Adam McDougall wrote: > Wes Morgan wrote: >> On Wed, 6 Aug 2008, Peter Schuller wrote: >> >>>> The AoC-SAT2-MV8 is based on the "Marvell Hercules-2 Rev. C0 SATA host >>>> controller", which seems to be AKA 88SX6081, which is listed as >>>> supported by the ata driver in 7.0-RELEASE. Has anyone had any ZFS >>>> experience with it? >>> >>> Yes; it has been working quite fine for me with 7 up to a >>> release-candidate. >>> In 7.0-RELEASE you must disable the hptrr driver because it eats the >>> device. >>> See: >>> >>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/120615 >>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/120842 >>> >>> When I say "working fine", this is with 8 SATA drives (6 of them in a >>> raidz2, >>> two of them for other stuff) and not having any issues like corruption, >>> timeouts or whatever else people have had with shaky controllers. >>> >>> However, I cannot speak to performance because it's a PCI-X card that I've >>> plugged into a PCI slow, so throughput is limited by the PCI bus (and the >>> machine is otherwise not the fastest to begin with). >>> >>> Note that this is on 32 bit; haven't been able to try it on 64 bit because >>> I >>> the PCI-X card wouldn't work on the motherboard (again PCI, so it's >>> hit-and-miss) where I would otherwise have tried it. >>> >>> I'd love to find a buyable PCI-E version that also worked in FreeBSD... >>> I'll >>> see if the link in your post contains any such hints. >> >> Hmmm... That PCI-X card is interesting. Supermicro also lists this: >> >> http://www.supermicro.com/products/accessories/addon/AOC-USAS-L8i.cfm >> >> http://www.lsi.com/storage_home/products_home/standard_product_ics/sas_ics/lsisas1068e/index.html >> >> Not much onboard ram, but it's PCI-E and even SAS. CDW lists it for $155. >> That would be cheaper than buying a new board with a PCI-X slot or two, and >> would even handle SAS drives. Claims to be based on the "LSISAS 1068E SAS >> controller". Any idea if that is supported? I don't see it listed in the >> mfi man page. LSI has a Linux driver for download. That card looks like it >> would be just what I need. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-fs >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-fs-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > mpt2@pci0:8:0:0: class=0x010000 card=0x31501000 chip=0x00581000 > rev=0x04 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'LSI Logic (Was: Symbios Logic, NCR)' > device = 'SAS 3000 series, 8-port with 1068E -StorPort' > class = mass storage > subclass = SCSI > mpt2: port 0xa800-0xa8ff mem > 0xfcbfc000-0xfcbfffff,0xfcbe0000-0xfcbeffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci8 > > da1 at mpt2 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device > da1: 300.000MB/s transfers > da1: Command Queueing Enabled > da1: 140009MB (286739329 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 17848C) > da2 at mpt2 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 > da2: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device > da2: 300.000MB/s transfers > da2: Command Queueing Enabled > da2: 140009MB (286739329 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 17848C) > da3 at mpt2 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 > da3: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device > da3: 300.000MB/s transfers > da3: Command Queueing Enabled > da3: 140009MB (286739329 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 17848C) > da4 at mpt2 bus 0 target 3 lun 0 > da4: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device > da4: 300.000MB/s transfers > da4: Command Queueing Enabled > da4: 140009MB (286739329 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 17848C) > da5 at mpt2 bus 0 target 4 lun 0 > da5: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device > da5: 300.000MB/s transfers > da5: Command Queueing Enabled > da5: 140009MB (286739329 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 17848C) > da6 at mpt2 bus 0 target 5 lun 0 > da6: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device > da6: 300.000MB/s transfers > da6: Command Queueing Enabled > da6: 140009MB (286739329 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 17848C) > da7 at mpt2 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 > da7: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device > da7: 300.000MB/s transfers > da7: Command Queueing Enabled > da7: 140009MB (286739329 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 17848C) > da8 at mpt2 bus 0 target 7 lun 0 > da8: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device > da8: 300.000MB/s transfers > da8: Command Queueing Enabled > da8: 140009MB (286739329 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 17848C) Excellent! How is your experience with the performance and reliability of the card?