[rescue] SAS cards + SATA drives on SPARC :::WAS::::::::Re: Sun Blade 2500 OS options

[Stephen Conley]

You may need drivers from LSI for some of the cards.  My card had a special
software package for interfacing with the firmware and everything.  I don't
know how available these drivers are nowadays, my experience is probably
like 6+ years old now.

On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 10:11 PM, Jerry Kemp <sun.mail.list47 at oryx.us>
wrote:

> I've tried a couple.
>
> I had a cheap, no name card I paid $25 for, then another fancy LSI that
> others had reported success with, that I had spent, just under $200 on.
>
> Jerry
>
>
>
>
> On 06/10/17 05:05 PM, Stephen Conley wrote:
>
>> There are LSI cards that work with that machine, but I rather unhelpfully
>> don't remember which one.  I searched my email to try and find the ebay
>> purchase, but it was so long ago it's been long cleaned up.  I seem to
>> recall looking at LSI cards on ebay one by one, then searching for
>> compatibility.  The one I had used 4 external SATA connectors for using an
>> external enclosure.
>>
>> As a word of warning, these cards can be really finnicky.  Mine went bad
>> and actually started writing random garbage to all the drives; I had a
>> RAIDZ2 but even 2 disk fault failover won't help when your controller card
>> goes insane :P  Fingers crossed that won't happen to you!  I suspect my
>> card was damaged cause it looked kinda like something took a bite out of
>> the corner, but it worked for a good many months before finally pooping
>> all
>> over my drives.
>>
>> Lesson learned: RAID is not a substitute for proper backups.
>>
>> Anyway -- I guess the helpful message I have here is that there ARE LSI
>> cards that will work, but the majority will probably not.  Good luck :)
>>
>>
>> Steve
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 12:36 PM, Jerry Kemp <sun.mail.list47 at oryx.us>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Regarding the SAS card + SATA drives.  I have tried this a couple of time,
>>> but so far have been non-successful.  Maybe I should have tried harder.
>>>
>>> If you come up with a card that works, even as just data only non-boot
>>> drives, please share what worked for you.
>>>
>>> Jerry
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 06/10/17 03:53 AM, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thankb  you for the information. I'd discovered the x86 bias of Open
>>>> Indiana
>>>> but not the lack of support for the 2500 in the current release of 11.
>>>> I
>>>> see that I can get a set of the Express images off of TPB so I'll
>>>> probably
>>>> go that route.
>>>>
>>>> Looks like I can stick a cheap LSI SAS card in to use cheap SATA disks
>>>> for
>>>> storage though it won't boot from it.  Anyone know if I have that
>>>> correct?
>>>>
>>>> William
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