From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 14:50:32 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 99B82B9B for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:50:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f177.google.com (mail-wi0-f177.google.com [209.85.212.177]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2CFCFEE9 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:50:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f177.google.com with SMTP id r20so3315172wiv.4 for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 06:50:30 -0800 (PST) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=HHy/dN+OXvfqybrkkMGWe615LtmJjkjAafGLWJOeCrI=; b=O6z2fmqoIrgeeOQW14N2mc1RRQRrYzepkOZ13cYyQhcIkd3ff+zyNM2KRiBxr0WcsE g4HVKuzvdHylV4mLf71t/RR5d5RDlTKdVSdoNXLd0b4RofYfQY6xy+p98HTLnKVHdDys CKjHO7jF+r3CrzLy+qKqTpdbEi5k14fNLCyBDgbd4KmIx150/OHMqmIzW5+llVZN8dkB DRVRY6xarWySA5Xm3WeW+OYK8MScn0lqHhNU3AsL27PKaSPOIsgxt6i+6ejfkJ9GQdlc Cj1NtgWb7LDgT7AckYxP4YVtqdf/gYF6AdLZQpZZsT/8wOC7g1O4xMUNT3V1mFQNbPPq rPjQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmyBsm06XE4aagpFoVe0UtH8RnHAe1AsExXlgkjLVOQNf03Yyvk91UDt+vAX12l+NsphnYn X-Received: by 10.180.37.197 with SMTP id a5mr4490799wik.2.1422024245534; Fri, 23 Jan 2015 06:44:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.10.1.68] (82-69-141-170.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk. [82.69.141.170]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id fo17sm2474664wjc.19.2015.01.23.06.44.04 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 23 Jan 2015 06:44:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <54C25EA4.1070504@multiplay.co.uk> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:45:56 +0000 From: Steven Hartland User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell branded storage controller for ZFS file-server | Advice requested References: <5BA9C549-9159-4A85-8C37-C30D700C8E4A@gwynne.id.au> In-Reply-To: <5BA9C549-9159-4A85-8C37-C30D700C8E4A@gwynne.id.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 14:50:32 -0000 I believe h330 is a LSI 3008 underneath with 256 QD which is classed my mrsas as Invader/Fury 12Gb/s MR controller so you should get decent performance from it, as with anything though only testing will answer the question categorically ;-) On 23/01/2015 13:21, David Gwynne wrote: >> On 23 Jan 2015, at 11:02 pm, Ahmed Kamal wrote: >> >> scary stuff .. so just to be clear: >> >> - LSI SAS hba => disks DONT spin up >> - h310 in jbod mode => disks DONT spin up >> - h330 in jbod mode => disks work fine ? > h330 doing jbod is a supported config from dell, so if it doesnt work should be able to have a little tantrum and get them to fix it or replace bits till it does work. > >> Note that currently dell's web configurator, only sells h330 with r730(xd) not r720(xd) .. The r720 comes with h310 or h710 afaict > yes. > >> Note 2, Illumos people are able to pass a driver parameter to spin up crappy dell disks .. check >> http://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182179/2013/06/sort/from/page/4/entry/15:430/20130617155143:52F0F7EA-D787-11E2-84A9-87C6F7D228D8/ > you can patch your kernels as much as you want to, but you cant fix the bios in the machine. if you want to boot off disks like that in a jbod config you'll need ones that spin up when they get power. > > dlg > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-scsi > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-scsi-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"